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- Title
Factors influencing the Young Entrepreneur's Intention During Pandemic Covid-19.
- Authors
bt Mohammad, Noorita; Badyalina, Basri; Shafie, Intan Syafinaz bt Mat; Rahman, Rosalina bt Abdul; bin Abdullah, Mohammad Faris
- Abstract
Entrepreneurship education has always been a key essential in any developing country. The focus has always been on the young generation because of the important role they played in the future economic development of any country. The objective of this study was to determine various factors affecting young people toward entrepreneurship during the covid pandemic. Three important factors of entrepreneur's education, creativity, and willingness to take risks on the intention were the focus of the study. A survey was conducted on 230 young graduates of age below 35. A self-administrated online questionnaire was designed and distributed to these young entrepreneurs, which sample is taken from graduate students who take part in entrepreneurship programs in their final semester. The purposive sampling technique was applied, while validity and reliability were measured before SPSS tools were used to examine the correlation between factors affecting the entrepreneur's intention. The result showed that the entrepreneurial intention of the young people in Malaysia is positively correlated and significantly influence by their willingness to take risks and creativity but not educational background and training. The significance of the study is to understand factors influencing the intention of entrepreneurship as well as for enriching the existing conceptual models. Hence, the study has contributed insight into the young entrepreneurs in Malaysia and facilitates the educational sector and government in the creation of successful entrepreneurs.
- Publication
Global Business & Management Research, 2022, Vol 14, p289
- ISSN
1947-5667
- Publication type
Academic Journal