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Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia

Using of the case of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), this study aims to estimate the factors that influence the entrepreneurship career choice among UUM students and graduates, in particular, the effect of educational factor on the probability that a graduate will choose entrepreneurship as his or...

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Main Authors: Mohamad, Noorkartina, Lim, Hock Eam, Yusof, Norhafezah, Kassim, Mustafa, Abdullah, Hussin
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2014
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HB Economic Theory
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/12332/1/document%283%29.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.123322016-04-18T02:46:10Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/12332/ Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia Mohamad, Noorkartina Lim, Hock Eam Yusof, Norhafezah Kassim, Mustafa Abdullah, Hussin HB Economic Theory Using of the case of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), this study aims to estimate the factors that influence the entrepreneurship career choice among UUM students and graduates, in particular, the effect of educational factor on the probability that a graduate will choose entrepreneurship as his or her career.Results of descriptive statistics reveal that the tendency of choosing entrepreneurship as career is high among the sample and it is associated with gender, ethnic groups, degree, CGPA and family entrepreneurship experiences.Nevertheless, the estimated Multinomial Logit model indicates that the significant factors are entrepreneur education, family entrepreneurship experiences and economic factor (proxy by intention to start a business upon graduation).The significant of educational factor implies that the educated entrepreneur can be cultivated and this empirical result supports the current policy of Malaysia government to grow the graduate entrepreneur through education.The findings of this paper suggest that entrepreneurship should be viewed as an important career choice among the university students and graduates.This career choice is seen as a choice that could improve the economy performance, particularly to the labor market because the entrepreneurship activity is able to create more jobs and prosperous. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/12332/1/document%283%29.pdf Mohamad, Noorkartina and Lim, Hock Eam and Yusof, Norhafezah and Kassim, Mustafa and Abdullah, Hussin (2014) Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia. International Journal of Business and Society, 15 (1). pp. 65-80. ISSN 1511-6670 http://www.ijbs.unimas.my/
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
building UUM Library
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continent Asia
country Malaysia
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url_provider http://repo.uum.edu.my/
language English
topic HB Economic Theory
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
Mohamad, Noorkartina
Lim, Hock Eam
Yusof, Norhafezah
Kassim, Mustafa
Abdullah, Hussin
Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
description Using of the case of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), this study aims to estimate the factors that influence the entrepreneurship career choice among UUM students and graduates, in particular, the effect of educational factor on the probability that a graduate will choose entrepreneurship as his or her career.Results of descriptive statistics reveal that the tendency of choosing entrepreneurship as career is high among the sample and it is associated with gender, ethnic groups, degree, CGPA and family entrepreneurship experiences.Nevertheless, the estimated Multinomial Logit model indicates that the significant factors are entrepreneur education, family entrepreneurship experiences and economic factor (proxy by intention to start a business upon graduation).The significant of educational factor implies that the educated entrepreneur can be cultivated and this empirical result supports the current policy of Malaysia government to grow the graduate entrepreneur through education.The findings of this paper suggest that entrepreneurship should be viewed as an important career choice among the university students and graduates.This career choice is seen as a choice that could improve the economy performance, particularly to the labor market because the entrepreneurship activity is able to create more jobs and prosperous.
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author Mohamad, Noorkartina
Lim, Hock Eam
Yusof, Norhafezah
Kassim, Mustafa
Abdullah, Hussin
author_facet Mohamad, Noorkartina
Lim, Hock Eam
Yusof, Norhafezah
Kassim, Mustafa
Abdullah, Hussin
author_sort Mohamad, Noorkartina
title Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_short Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_full Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_fullStr Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: The case of Universiti Utara Malaysia
title_sort estimating the choice of entrepreneurship as a career: the case of universiti utara malaysia
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
publishDate 2014
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/12332/1/document%283%29.pdf
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