Proceedings of Annual South Africa Business Research Conference
11 - 12 January 2016, Taj Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa, ISBN: 978-1-922069-95-5
Developmental Influence of Students’ Attitudes, Intentions and
Behavior on Social Entrepreneurs in Nigerian Universities
Saidi AdedejI Adelekan* and Williamson Mervywn**
The Nigeria university system is presently acknowledged as preparing graduates as
employee of labor rather than being employers of labor. There is general agreement that
attitudes towards social entrepreneurship are determinant factors to decision of becoming
social entrepreneurs. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, this study looked at the
approach to the influence of social entrepreneurship education on the entrepreneurial
attitudes, intentions and behavior of the Nigerian universities students. This is necessary in
order to confirm conventional insight that social entrepreneurship education increases the
intention to start a venture. Being a preliminary and study approach, the result is anticipated
to showcase that social entrepreneurship education increases some attitudes and the
overall entrepreneurial intention and that inspiration is one of the programs with most
influential benefits. This study will be a quantitative research. Data will be collected through
the use of structured questionnaire from three selected universities in Nigeria. A sample
size of 254 will be drawn from the total population of the final year students of 3,777. The
data collected will be analyzed using simple descriptive statistics (means and standard
deviations) and inferential statistics using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
The findings will contribute to the theories of planned behavior and education and also serve
as benchmark for the practice of teaching social entrepreneurship. Recommendations for
measures to nurture an evidently existing potential for sustainable social entrepreneurship
is hereby proffered.
Keywords: Development, Social Entrepreneurs, Nigerian Universities, Attitudes, Intentions,
Behaviors
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*Saidi Adedeji Adelekan, School of Management, Information Technology and Governance, University of
KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Email: 214585817@stu.ukzn.ac.za
**Dr. Williamson Mervywn, School of Management, Information Technology and Governance, University of
KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Email: williamsonm@ukzn.ac.za