Abstract
Resilience is one important topic in entrepreneurship. This is because entrepreneurship is not a flat line and requires adaptation, persistency, and resilience in order to sustain and increase its business. Personal values are one key component in leading people to behave include people behaviour in adapting, changing, surviving, or other things in their lives. The value-attitude-behaviour hierarchy explains the relationship of personal values and people behaviour is mediated by people’s attitude. Thus, the aim of this research is to examine the relationship between instrumental and terminal values, as well as attitudes and intentions to quit becoming entrepreneurs. The number of samples in this study involves 462 micro entrepreneurs of Indonesia collected through purposive sampling. Data are then analysed by using structural equation modelling. The analysis results show that the terminal values have a significant relationship with the attitude of becoming an entrepreneur. However, the results also show that instrumental values have no significant relationship with attitudes. Furthermore, the results show that attitudes have no significant relationship with the entrepreneurial intention to quit.
Highlights
The entrepreneurial career selection behaviour in entrepreneurship through entrepreneurial education is one of the ways to create perceptions and equip individuals with strong entrepreneurial knowledge and skills (Henderson and Robertson, 2000); (Ishak Hj Abdul Rahman et al, 2006)); (Robertson et al, 2003)
This is parallel with the study of Nor Aishah Buang dan Ruhizan Mohd Yassin (2008) which found that too few entrepreneurship courses were given to students from majors such as engineering majors and science majors. They are not given the opportunity to pursue entrepreneurial education. This opinion was supported by the study conducted by which states that there are only four public higher education institutions offering entrepreneurial courses for students at the Faculty of Engineering not included in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), and Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
General Hypothesis (H05.1): “There is no significant difference in the level of entrepreneurship intention of engineering students in UTM, UTHM, and UTeM based on entrepreneurship education”
Summary
The entrepreneurial career selection behaviour in entrepreneurship through entrepreneurial education is one of the ways to create perceptions and equip individuals with strong entrepreneurial knowledge and skills (Henderson and Robertson, 2000); (Ishak Hj Abdul Rahman et al, 2006)); (Robertson et al, 2003). Formal and informal entrepreneurial education is an initial inventory of individual development that is necessary for those who want to become an entrepreneur (Kuratko, 2009); (Zaidatol, 2010). The incentives for entrepreneurship are in line with statistics from the Department of Statistics, Malaysia which shows an increase in the number of unemployed graduates at 3.1 percent and has given significant challenges to higher education institutions (Nor Hafiza and Binti Othman, 2012); (Marcela et al, 2012); (Ioana Panc et al, 2012); (Nihan et al, 2012); (Nor Fadhilah Nasharudin and Halimah Harun, 2010); (Salmah et al, 2009); (Nor Aishah Buang dan Ruhizan Mohd Yassin, 2008); (Hoe Chee Hee, 2006); (Nor Aishah Buang et al, 2005) to develop quality graduates and have a variety of skills. In order to increase the intention of engineering graduates to venture into entrepreneurship, this study is conducted to identify the significant differences in the entrepreneurial intention level of final year students and to identify whether there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurship career behavior
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