Entrepreneurial Intention among Employees an Insight of Entrepreneurial University in Malaysia

Abstract

Research on entrepreneurial university is clearly burgeoning. The aim of entrepreneurial university is to cultivate more entrepreneurs among the students and create an excellent environment for them. However, without employees working closely to the nature of entrepreneurship, the university is unable to perform their service to students. In other words, employees in entrepreneurial university played an important role in helping the university to provide an excellent entrepreneurial education to the students. The existence of educators’ entrepreneurial intention also played a significant role in the method of imparting entrepreneurial knowledge to the students. Despite that, it did not mean that every employee that exposes and works under entrepreneurial environment would possess an entrepreneurial mindset. Hence, the aims of this study is to analyse whether the attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control have influences to entrepreneurial intention among employees. The primary data of this study was collected through questionnaire survey. Pearson’s Correlations Coefficient and Multiple Regression Analysis were used in this study to examine the relationship. The result was showed that all the independent variables had positive significant relationship with entrepreneurial intention.