Tracking the cyber entrepreneurial intention of private universities students in Malaysia

Abstract

Cyber entrepreneurial interest is a term used to describe the readiness and willingness to become an internet-based self-entrepreneur. Cyber entrepreneurship is a new source of economic growth and development. With an increase in number of students graduated, opting cyber entrepreneurship as a career is essential not only to reduce unemployment rate but it can also provide additional source of income in line with an increasing cost of living. We believe the individual’s utility from any particular job including cyber entrepreneurship depends not only on income but also on the interest and working conditions such as decision making control, risk exposure, work effort, etc. Thus, this paper reports preliminary results of an ongoing project to track cyber entrepreneurial intention of private universities students. The study used a self-administered questionnaire to capture the extent to which private universities students might wish to create their own cyber business upon graduation. The findings reveal that only risk attitude contributes to the prediction of self-employment intention and strong levels of self-employment intention are related to low levels of cyber entrepreneurial intention.