| dc.contributor.advisor | Entrepreneurship is a source of economic growth, employment, innovations which is vital in identifying the factors that occur
students’ intention to become an entrepreneur.
Being a social role engaged in the creation of
value through innovation and risk taking,
entrepreneurship plays a vital role especially in
developing countries like Sri Lanka. The main
focus of the current study is to identify the
determinants of entrepreneurial intentions of
students: with special reference to
undergraduate students of Sri Lanka. In this
research personal attitude, entrepreneurial
education, gender differences and family
background are the independent variables while
entrepreneurial intention is considered as the
dependent variable. The study comprises of
primary data which were gathered directly
through online questionnaires. The sample
consists of 200 undergraduates from state
universities as well as University Grants
Commission (UGC) approved universities and
institutions of Sri Lanka. The study employed
simple random sampling method to select the
sample. Gathered data were analyzed using SPSS
software (version 22). The aggregate reliability of
the current study according to Cronbach’s Alpha
is 0.722. Themodel can be accepted asthe Durbin
Watson value is 2.161 and significance level of
ANOVA is .000. Besides, the correlation results
were obtained using Spearman’s method. As for
the research findings, gender and family
background show a negative impact on the
intention to become entrepreneurs while
education and personal factors have a positive
impact. | |
