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Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education

The recent instability in economy was found to be influencing the situation in Malaysia whether directly or indirectly. Taking that into consideration, the government needs to find the best approach to balance its citizen’s socio-economic strata level urgently. Through education platform is among th...

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Main Authors: Radin A Rahman, Radin Siti Aishah, Othman, Norasmah, Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah, Ab. Wahid, Hariyaty
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Published: World Academic Publishing 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54176/1/Entrepreneurial%20intention%20and%20social%20entrepreneurship%20among%20students%20in%20Malaysian%20higher%20education.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.541762018-03-02T02:44:54Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54176/ Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education Radin A Rahman, Radin Siti Aishah Othman, Norasmah Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Ab. Wahid, Hariyaty The recent instability in economy was found to be influencing the situation in Malaysia whether directly or indirectly. Taking that into consideration, the government needs to find the best approach to balance its citizen’s socio-economic strata level urgently. Through education platform is among the efforts planned and acted upon for the purpose of balancing the effects of the influence, through the exposure of social entrepreneurial activity towards youth especially those in higher institution level. Armed with knowledge and skills that they gained, with the support by entrepreneurial culture and environment while in campus; indirectly, the students will lean more on making social entrepreneurship as a career option when they graduate. Following the issues of marketability and workability of current graduates that are becoming dire, research involving how far the willingness of student to create social innovation that contribute to the society without focusing solely on personal gain is relevant enough to be conducted. With that, this research is conducted with the purpose of identifying the level of entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among higher institution students in Malaysia. Stratified random sampling involves 355 undergraduate students from five public universities had been made as research respondents and data were collected through surveys. The data was then analyzed descriptively using min score and standard deviation. The study found that the entrepreneurial intention of higher education students are on moderate level, however it is the contrary for social entrepreneurship activities, where it was shown on a high level. This means that while the students only have moderate level of willingness to be a social entrepreneur, they are very committed to created social innovation through the social entrepreneurship activities conducted. The implication from this study can be contributed towards the higher institution authorities in prediction the tendency of student in becoming social entrepreneurs. Thus, the opportunities and facilities for realizing the courses related to social entrepreneurship must be created expansively so that the vision of creating as many social entrepreneurs as possible can be achieved. World Academic Publishing 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54176/1/Entrepreneurial%20intention%20and%20social%20entrepreneurship%20among%20students%20in%20Malaysian%20higher%20education.pdf Radin A Rahman, Radin Siti Aishah and Othman, Norasmah and Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah and Ab. Wahid, Hariyaty (2016) Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education. International Journal Economic and Management Engineering, 10 (1). pp. 175-181. ISSN 2225-742X; ESSN: 2226-7344 https://waset.org/publication/Entrepreneurial-Intention-and-Social-Entrepreneurship-among-Students-in-Malaysian-Higher-Education/10003437
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description The recent instability in economy was found to be influencing the situation in Malaysia whether directly or indirectly. Taking that into consideration, the government needs to find the best approach to balance its citizen’s socio-economic strata level urgently. Through education platform is among the efforts planned and acted upon for the purpose of balancing the effects of the influence, through the exposure of social entrepreneurial activity towards youth especially those in higher institution level. Armed with knowledge and skills that they gained, with the support by entrepreneurial culture and environment while in campus; indirectly, the students will lean more on making social entrepreneurship as a career option when they graduate. Following the issues of marketability and workability of current graduates that are becoming dire, research involving how far the willingness of student to create social innovation that contribute to the society without focusing solely on personal gain is relevant enough to be conducted. With that, this research is conducted with the purpose of identifying the level of entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among higher institution students in Malaysia. Stratified random sampling involves 355 undergraduate students from five public universities had been made as research respondents and data were collected through surveys. The data was then analyzed descriptively using min score and standard deviation. The study found that the entrepreneurial intention of higher education students are on moderate level, however it is the contrary for social entrepreneurship activities, where it was shown on a high level. This means that while the students only have moderate level of willingness to be a social entrepreneur, they are very committed to created social innovation through the social entrepreneurship activities conducted. The implication from this study can be contributed towards the higher institution authorities in prediction the tendency of student in becoming social entrepreneurs. Thus, the opportunities and facilities for realizing the courses related to social entrepreneurship must be created expansively so that the vision of creating as many social entrepreneurs as possible can be achieved.
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author Radin A Rahman, Radin Siti Aishah
Othman, Norasmah
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Ab. Wahid, Hariyaty
spellingShingle Radin A Rahman, Radin Siti Aishah
Othman, Norasmah
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Ab. Wahid, Hariyaty
Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education
author_facet Radin A Rahman, Radin Siti Aishah
Othman, Norasmah
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Ab. Wahid, Hariyaty
author_sort Radin A Rahman, Radin Siti Aishah
title Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education
title_short Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education
title_full Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education
title_fullStr Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in Malaysian higher education
title_sort entrepreneurial intention and social entrepreneurship among students in malaysian higher education
publisher World Academic Publishing
publishDate 2016
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54176/1/Entrepreneurial%20intention%20and%20social%20entrepreneurship%20among%20students%20in%20Malaysian%20higher%20education.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54176/
https://waset.org/publication/Entrepreneurial-Intention-and-Social-Entrepreneurship-among-Students-in-Malaysian-Higher-Education/10003437
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