The Influence of Entrepreneurial Culture on Entrepreneurial Intention Among Business Students

Abstract

The number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia increased in 2017 from 1.67% to 3.10% from 225 million Indonesians. But the number is still less than the number of our neighboring entrepreneurs, Malaysia has 6% entrepreneurs, Singapore 7% and Thailand 5%. Increasing the number of entrepreneurs shows the increasing economic growth of a country, therefore the government made various efforts encourages the growth of the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia, through education in this case the ministry of education provides an appeal for entrepreneurship to be included as part of the curriculum, both at the high school and university level. Entrepreneurship education giving the students experiances of various technical and skills to become more confident as an entrepreneurs. Beside of education, motivation, personality and family background also determine entrepreneurial intention. The aims of this research is to find out the entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurial personality and family background influence on entrepreneurial intention. This study uses a sample of 326 business students of President University. The data collection using google docs that is spreaded via whatshapp, line and email. The result of the study were processed using SPSS version 22. The conclusion show that independent variables (entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurial personality and family background) influence on entrepreneurial intention with affected 54.4% and the rest by the others factors.

Asian and African Business Students: A Comparative Analysis of their Motivation, Family Support and Culture on Business Orientation

“…Entrepreneurship education has been recognized as one of the important determinant of entrepreneurial intentions. Various studies like Galloway and Brown (2002), Kuratko (2005), Potter et al (2017), Fayolle and Gailly (2008), Patricia and Silangen (2016), Ndofirepi and Rambe (2017), Senjaya and Genoveva (2019) and Genoveva (2019) empirically demonstrated the entrepreneurial education as an important determinant of business orientation. Several previous studies by the authors concluded that there is influence of some factors on business orientation of business students, such as cultural factors, family support, self-efficacy, motivation, and e-commerce (Genoveva, 2019;Senjaya and Genoveva, 2019).…”

“…While, gender has an influence on entrepreneurial desires, entrepreneurial women have better performance than male (Djajagunawan and Genoveva, 2018). Among some researchers who explain groups that have family businesses have higher entrepreneurial intention than those who do not have a family business (Genoveva, 2019;Chrisman, Chua and Steier, 2003;Nandamuri and Gowtami, 2013).…”

“…The traditional motivation of the entrepreneur is to get the money, in this era money is not a reason why entrepreneurs count other factors such as to provide social benefit to others, practise the knowledge, maximaze their creativity and desire of achievement (Nugraha and Indra, 2016). McCelland in Genoveva (2019) state that motivation in entrepreneurship is needed for achievement, the entrepreneurial behavior that is manifested in attitudes and motivation on a successful career and achievement is reflected in the following actions: adapting for achieve success, action oriented, high responsibility, good supervising and motivation. To be successful in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs must have motivation that support the Asian and African Business Students: A Comparative Analysis of their Motivation, Family Support and Culture on Business Orientation 112 success of the business.…”

“…In addition, to increase entrepreneurship education is the driver of growth in entrepreneurs (Naude, 2013). Other factors also influence one's desire to entrepreneurship are motivational factors as stated in other researches (Mclelland, 1961;Bandura, 1997;Borgia, 2005;Jordaan, 2014;Genoveva, 2019). Robbins and Judge (2013) defines motivation as a process that explains the intensity, direction and persistence of effort to achieve a goal.…”

“…If someone has motivation then he has a clear goal, this is the trait that must be possessed by an entrepreneur. The next factor is family support (Joseph, 2012;Neneh, 2017;Genoveva, 2019) and tradition (Adendorff, 2011;He, 2011;Vainionkulma, 2016). Neneh's results (Neneh, 2017) show that family support is very strong especially for those who carry out their functions as the responsible person in the family.…”