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RMIT University
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University Of Strathclyde
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UCSI University
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Publisher: Emerald
Date: 18-10-2021
DOI: 10.1108/JEEE-02-2021-0080
Abstract: This study aims to delineate opportunity recognition as a competency from opportunity recognition as an outcome in the form of ideas and opportunities. In addition, a model was developed to examine the antecedents that lead to opportunity recognition competency, the intention to be an entrepreneur and finally, the actual number of ideas and opportunities discovered. This study adopted cross-sectional design and collected quantitative data from a total of 247 randomly selected final year students from two private universities in Malaysia. Partial least squares structural equation modelling was applied to test the associations. Study revealed that opportunity recognition competency and ability to develop ideas or exploitable opportunities are distinct constructs. Students with high competency in recognising opportunities are interested to be an entrepreneur but are not necessarily prepared with tangible ideas or exploitable opportunities. Absorptive capacity, entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial knowledge were found to be significant predictors of opportunity recognition competency. Firstly, in managing outputs of entrepreneurship education and trainings, opportunity recognition competency and number of ideas and opportunities should be separately and explicitly measured. Secondly, entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial knowledge must be emphasised in entrepreneurial education or training on guiding students to be alert to information and honing their opportunity recognition competency skills through active search techniques. This study is one of the few studies that clarify and empirically distinguish the concept of opportunity recognition as competency from opportunity recognition as an outcome in the forms of ideas and exploitable opportunities.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-03-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Publisher: ACM
Date: 28-08-2019
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Academic Research Publishing Group (Publications)
Date: 25-12-2018
DOI: 10.32861/JSSR.SPI6.664.669
Abstract: Entrepreneurship has been the central focus for both policy makers and scholars alike for its role in economic and social transformation of a nation. University students are widely regarded as future builders of nation and thus, their role and intention towards entrepreneurship is of much concern. This study applies the theory of planned behaviour to analyse the factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intention with the inclusion of university environment. This study aims to incorporate the various variables as a comprehensive model simultaneously analysing the relationships between using SEM-PLS technique. A quantitative research design was employed with the use of 317 s le of university students from Malaysia and China universities. The study explores the effect of in idual factors: attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control together with university environment on their effect on university students’ entrepreneurial intention. The finding suggests that university environment is a significant influence of university students’ intention to entrepreneurship as a career choice. A conducive environment and support within the university elevates student’s belief in their capability to be an entrepreneur and the intention to embark on an entrepreneurial journey.
Publisher: ACM
Date: 28-08-2019
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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