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Entrepreneurial Intention Among University Students: A Literature Review

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Selected Proceedings from the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Islamic Studies (ICIS 2021)

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Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of creation, vision and change. Academics and policymakers are trying to encourage students’ entrepreneurial intentions by modifying the curricula and type of instruction. Therefore, this study aims to analyse and synthesize existing studies on entrepreneurial intention among student and maps the major theories, determinants that researchers have used to predict university student intention to pursue for entrepreneurial intention. The findings suggest that attitude, subjective norm, perceive behavioural control, perceive supports and perceive barriers, need for achievement, entrepreneurial education, economic situation, perceived educational support, perceived relational support, perceived structural support, innovativeness, risk taking propensity, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial development program, government support and family support have a significant impact towards student entrepreneurial intention. Lastly, most of the previous studies either adopt or extend or modify Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and only few of them propose their conceptual model for the study.

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Yahaya, M.H., Ismail, M.A.M., Rosli, M.S.D.A., Baharudin, Z.N., Latib, N.A.A. (2022). Entrepreneurial Intention Among University Students: A Literature Review. In: Shariff, N.N.M., Yakob, M.A., Hamidi, Z.S., Aghwan, Z.A.A., Lateh, N. (eds) Selected Proceedings from the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Islamic Studies (ICIS 2021). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2390-6_13

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