Entrepreneurial intention and startup preparation: A study among business students in Malaysia

Mamun, Abdullah Al; Nawi, Noorshella Che; Mohiuddin, Muhammad; Shamsudin, Siti Farhah Fazira Binti; Fazal, Syed Ali

doi:10.1080/08832323.2017.1365682

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“…This result means that creativity has an indirect positive impact on SMEs' sustainability through competitive advantage. The results of this study support several studies by Mamun et al (2017), Amabile (2017), and Styaningrum et al (2020), that with creativity and entrepreneurship and the existence of several advantages obtained, SMEs' sustainability can be achieved by increasing employment, sales turnover, and profits over the last two years.…”

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confidence: 89%

Do Creativity and Intellectual Capital Matter for SMEs Sustainability? The Role of Competitive Advantage

Srikalimah¹,

Wardana²,

Ambarwati³

et al. 2020

JAFEB

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SMEs as an organization to succeed and to be sustainable must have the most essential and strategic capital, namely creativity, competitive advantage, and intellectual capital. This study aims to explore how creativity and intellectual capital determines SMEs' sustainability as well as examine the emerging role of competitive advantage in supporting this relationship. A quantitative method was applied to gain a better understanding of the relationship between variables undergoing Structural Equation Modeling with Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). This study collected data from 123 SMEs in East Java of Indonesia using an online survey. The approach adopted in this study is a convenience random sampling method, which is widely used in entrepreneurship and SMEs' sustainability research. The findings showed that intellectual capital positively affects both competitive advantage and SMEs' sustainability. Additionally, the result of this study confirms a robust relationship between intellectual capital and SMEs' sustainability. However, partially, creativity failed in explaining SMEs' sustainability. Furthermore, this study confirmed that competitive advantage has successfully mediated both the influence of creativity and intellectual capital to SMEs' sustainability. Although this research only involved participants in East Java, this study can be the first step for relevant research of SMEs' sustainability, in particular, in Indonesia.

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confidence: 89%

Do Creativity and Intellectual Capital Matter for SMEs Sustainability? The Role of Competitive Advantage

Srikalimah¹,

Wardana²,

Ambarwati³

et al. 2020

JAFEB

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“…This finding is similar to Ndofirepi (2020) and Shah et al (2020), that attitudes towards entrepreneurship, proactiveness, riskpropensity and self-efficacy were significant factors in influencing entrepreneurial intentions among graduates. The results also confirmed the associations premised on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) (Abdullah et al, 2017); which states that through the influence of personality traits, the attitude changes which impacts on the behaviour or intention to start business. From our findings, entrepreneurial education strengthens personal characteristics, and thus enhances entrepreneurial intentions of graduates.…”

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confidence: 81%

Influence of entrepreneurship education on Egerton University’s graduates’ intention to start a business

Mshenga¹,

Okello²,

Ayuya³

et al. 2020

Afr. Crop Sci. J.

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Entrepreneurship training has been introduced in most Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in sub-Saharan Africa countries to enhance graduate self-employment. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of entrepreneurship training on Egerton University’s graduates’ intention to start a business. This study used the Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in a cross sectional survey, conducted during April to May, 2016. A sample of 341 business and non-business Egerton University graduates, enrolled from the year 2008 up to 2015 was used. Data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire through telephone and face-to-face interviews. They were analysed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and PLS Multi-Group Analysis (PLS-MGA). Findings revealed presence of a significant positive relationship between attitude toward entrepreneurship (b = 0.315, P=0.01), proactiveness (b = 0.042, P=0.01), risk-propensity (b = 0.11, P=0.01), and self-efficacy (b = 0.138, P=0.01) on graduates’ intention to start a business. Furthermore, multi-group analysis showed that the same four attributes significantly predicted entrepreneurship intention among business and non-business graduates to start businesses. Also, subjective norms significantly impacted entrepreneurial intentions of business graduates to start businesses. Finally, business graduates had significant higher scores than non-business graduatesin terms of self-efficacy (b = 0.182, P=0.03) and subjective norms (b = 0.329, P=0.04).

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“…The challenges are increasingly complex and there is an increase in competency of graduates from universities entering the industrial era of 4.0. It is important to understand the role of entrepreneurship competence and their characteristics and to determine how they influence the intention and career plan of student entrepreneurship [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Successful people usually already have a mature career plan since early [12]. But career planning does not guarantee career success, attitudes, experiences, education, family support, and motivation also plays an important role in individual careers [7], [13].…”

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“…The 4.0 Industrial revolution has encouraged the potential for the development of entrepreneurship activity as a result of increased use and application of technology, where there will be increased demand for skilled technological workforce [15]. In an entrepreneurship intention study from a college graduate in Malaysia, [7] also highlighted that promoting entrepreneurship is one way to address employment feasibility issues. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of management student career centers, entrepreneurship personality, family environment, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship intention and future career planning of students Universitas Negeri Malang.…”

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The Level of Student Career Center Management and Future Career Planning of Students Universitas Negeri Malang: A Descriptive Analysis

Adha¹,

Ariyanti²,

Maisyaroh³

et al. 2020

The Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Social Science and Education, ICSSED 2020, August 4-5 2020, Yogyakarta,

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Unemployment is one of the main problems in developing countries such as Indonesia. Total unemployment in Indonesia as a whole in the last three semesters has decreased, but ironically the unemployment of undergraduate graduates in the last three semesters has always increased. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of management student career centers, entrepreneurship personality, family environment, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship intention and future career planning of students Universitas Negeri Malang. The research method used a descriptive quantitative approach. The sampling technique used in each faculty is used proportional random sampling with a sample size of 381 students. The results of this study are, (1) the level of student career center management, entrepreneurship education and students future career planning is in the good category, (2) the level of student entrepreneurship personality, family environment and student entrepreneurship intention is in the very good category.

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Entrepreneurial intention and startup preparation: A study among business students in Malaysia

Cited by 59 publications

References 58 publications

Do Creativity and Intellectual Capital Matter for SMEs Sustainability? The Role of Competitive Advantage

Do Creativity and Intellectual Capital Matter for SMEs Sustainability? The Role of Competitive Advantage

Influence of entrepreneurship education on Egerton University’s graduates’ intention to start a business

The Level of Student Career Center Management and Future Career Planning of Students Universitas Negeri Malang: A Descriptive Analysis

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