期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
期号：11
页码：735-754
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i11/11565
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Unemployment among the graduates has become a serious issues in Malaysia. Many programs and incentives are being developed by the government especially for the graduates to grab the opportunity to become an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, still it is less succeeded to attract their intention to choose entrepreneur as a career. Therefore, study on factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention (dependant variable), had been conducted. Four independent variables had been chosen; (1) attitude towards the behaviour,(2) perceived behavioral control, (3) subjective norms and (4) entrepreneurship education. The questionnaires were distributed to 175 students of Faculty of Business Administration at UiTM Cawangan Melaka Kampus Bandaraya Melaka and the data were collected using convenience sampling method. All of the obtained data were analyzed by using SPSS Version 23 for frequency/percentage analysis, correlation and multiple regression analysis. From the research, it was found that attitude towards the behaviour, subjective norms and entrepreneurship education has a significant positive relationship with entrepreneurship intention while perceived behavioral control had no significant relationship with entrepreneurial intention. Attitude towards the behaviour was found to be the most influential factor towards entrepreneurship intention. Therefore, the attitude of the student needs to be change to be more positive, the social environment like family and friends should be supportive and in terms of entrepreneurship education they should be given opportunity to explore on how to deal with complex decision making and also knowledgeable about entrepreneurial process.
