Proceedings of 8th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference
9 - 10 February 2015, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-71-9
Entrepreneurial Intention among Students in Malaysian
Higher Education Institutions HEIs
Abdullah Kaid Al-Swidi1 and Arfan Shahzad2
This study conducted on entrepreneurial intention among students in Malaysian higher
education institution (HEIs). The study used the conceptual framework adopted form
theory of planned behavioral model to analyses the Entrepreneurship indentation using
as a dependent variable between attitude and subject norm and perceived behavioral
among the student. This study was conducted on both local and private higher education
Malaysian institution. The data was collected through the questionnaires from private and
public education institution Malaysia. The empirical analysis involved using the structural
equation modelling (SEM) and regression using SPSS 19.0 statistical software package.
The results of the study confirmed that attitude and perceived behavioral control have
positive significant effects on Entrepreneurship Intention in Malaysian. On the other hand,
subjective norm was not significant in Entrepreneurship intention.
Key words: HEIs, Entrepreneurial, attitude, subjective norms, Perceived behavioral
and Malaysia
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1
Department of management and Marketing, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University, Doha
, Qatar, Email: swidi@qu.edu.qa, Corresponding author
2
Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business, University Utara Malaysia.