Entrepreneurial intent of final-year commerce students in the rural provinces of South Africa

Owing to the fact that entrepreneurship is widely considered to be a mechanism for reducing unemployment, the purpose of the study was to assess whether final-year Commerce students in the predominantly rural provinces, the Eastern Cape Province and the Limpopo Province, have the intention to start...

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Main Author: Malebana, Mmakgabo Justice
Other Authors: Swanepoel, Elana
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Language:en
Published: 2013
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Online Access:Malebana, Mmakgabo Justice (2013) Entrepreneurial intent of final-year commerce students in the rural provinces of South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8588>
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spelling ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-unisa-oai-uir.unisa.ac.za-10500-85882018-11-19T17:14:27Z Entrepreneurial intent of final-year commerce students in the rural provinces of South Africa Malebana, Mmakgabo Justice Swanepoel, Elana Entrepreneurial intent Theory of planned behaviour Entrepreneurial self-efficacy Exposure to entrepreneurship education Social capital Shapero and Sokol's model of entrepreneurial event Awareness of government entrepreneurial support Model of entrepreneurship development Final-year commerce students Entrepreneurial competencies 658.0220968 Small business -- Management -- South Africa Entrepreneurship -- South Africa New business enterprises -- South Africa Success in business -- South Africa Owing to the fact that entrepreneurship is widely considered to be a mechanism for reducing unemployment, the purpose of the study was to assess whether final-year Commerce students in the predominantly rural provinces, the Eastern Cape Province and the Limpopo Province, have the intention to start their own businesses.The study draws heavily from entrepreneurial intent models and focuses on the relationship between three key variables, namely, exposure to entrepreneurship education, awareness of entrepreneurial support and social capital to establish whether they are related to the intention of final-year Commerce studentsto start their own businesses. The literature review concentrated on entrepreneurial intent and entrepreneurial intent models; government entrepreneurial support initiatives in South Africa and in other countries and their role in the development of entrepreneurial intent, emergence of new ventures and the growth of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs); entrepreneurship education and its role in enhancing entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial intent;the influence of social capital on entrepreneurial intent and the different stages on the new venture life-cycle; and concludes with the link between entrepreneurship and the establishment of SMMEs. A survey was conducted among National Diploma (ND): Internal Auditing, Cost and Management Accounting and Financial information systems students (IAUD, CMA and FIS) (who had six months exposure to entrepreneurship education), ND: Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management (E/SBM) (who had three years exposure to entrepreneurship education) and ND: Management (without exposure to entrepreneurship education). The respondents for the study comprised 355 final year students of which 276 were from Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape Province and 79 were from Tshwane University of Technology (Polokwane Campus) in the LimpopoProvince.Data was analysed using descriptive statistics and nonparametric statistics. The findings reveal that the majority of the respondents had the intention to start a business in the future.The entrepreneurial intent of the ND: E/SBM students was v stronger than the entrepreneurial intent of the ND: IAUD, CMA and FIS students and ND: Management students. Some significant relationships were found between entrepreneurial intent and the key variables of the study. Business Management D.Com. (Business Management) 2013-02-01T07:43:07Z 2013-02-01T07:43:07Z 2013-02 Thesis Malebana, Mmakgabo Justice (2013) Entrepreneurial intent of final-year commerce students in the rural provinces of South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8588> http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8588 en University of South Africa 1 online resources (xxvii, 779 leaves)
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language en
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topic Entrepreneurial intent
Theory of planned behaviour
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy
Exposure to entrepreneurship education
Social capital
Shapero and Sokol's model of entrepreneurial event
Awareness of government entrepreneurial support
Model of entrepreneurship development
Final-year commerce students
Entrepreneurial competencies
658.0220968
Small business -- Management -- South Africa
Entrepreneurship -- South Africa
New business enterprises -- South Africa
Success in business -- South Africa
spellingShingle Entrepreneurial intent
Theory of planned behaviour
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy
Exposure to entrepreneurship education
Social capital
Shapero and Sokol's model of entrepreneurial event
Awareness of government entrepreneurial support
Model of entrepreneurship development
Final-year commerce students
Entrepreneurial competencies
658.0220968
Small business -- Management -- South Africa
Entrepreneurship -- South Africa
New business enterprises -- South Africa
Success in business -- South Africa
Malebana, Mmakgabo Justice
Entrepreneurial intent of final-year commerce students in the rural provinces of South Africa
description Owing to the fact that entrepreneurship is widely considered to be a mechanism for reducing unemployment, the purpose of the study was to assess whether final-year Commerce students in the predominantly rural provinces, the Eastern Cape Province and the Limpopo Province, have the intention to start their own businesses.The study draws heavily from entrepreneurial intent models and focuses on the relationship between three key variables, namely, exposure to entrepreneurship education, awareness of entrepreneurial support and social capital to establish whether they are related to the intention of final-year Commerce studentsto start their own businesses. The literature review concentrated on entrepreneurial intent and entrepreneurial intent models; government entrepreneurial support initiatives in South Africa and in other countries and their role in the development of entrepreneurial intent, emergence of new ventures and the growth of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs); entrepreneurship education and its role in enhancing entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial intent;the influence of social capital on entrepreneurial intent and the different stages on the new venture life-cycle; and concludes with the link between entrepreneurship and the establishment of SMMEs. A survey was conducted among National Diploma (ND): Internal Auditing, Cost and Management Accounting and Financial information systems students (IAUD, CMA and FIS) (who had six months exposure to entrepreneurship education), ND: Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management (E/SBM) (who had three years exposure to entrepreneurship education) and ND: Management (without exposure to entrepreneurship education). The respondents for the study comprised 355 final year students of which 276 were from Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape Province and 79 were from Tshwane University of Technology (Polokwane Campus) in the LimpopoProvince.Data was analysed using descriptive statistics and nonparametric statistics. The findings reveal that the majority of the respondents had the intention to start a business in the future.The entrepreneurial intent of the ND: E/SBM students was v stronger than the entrepreneurial intent of the ND: IAUD, CMA and FIS students and ND: Management students. Some significant relationships were found between entrepreneurial intent and the key variables of the study. === Business Management === D.Com. (Business Management)
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title_fullStr Entrepreneurial intent of final-year commerce students in the rural provinces of South Africa
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