MANAGEMENT STUDENTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS

ENTREPRENEURSHIP/BEING A ENTREPRENEUR
INTRODUCTION:
Researchers have introduced many attempts in identifying the factors
affecting entrepreneurship attitudes among students in general; for example,
Fayolle and Gailly (2015) studied the influence of Entrepreneurship Education
Programs (EEPs) on participants’ attitudes and intention toward
entrepreneurship; they found that EEPs effects were more marked when
participants had less previous entrepreneurial exposure, whereas significant
effects were highlighted when students had been previously significantly
exposed to entrepreneurship.
Another research has revealed the effect of specific benefits for the
students derived from the entrepreneurship education program (Sánchez, 2013).
Also, Volery et al. (2013) concluded that entrepreneurship education has a
positive, albeit limited impact on human-capital assets. The positive outcomes
of entrepreneurship education programs for management students along with
contemporary trends in educational evaluation in terms of the challenges
associated with the assessment of these programs were studied by Duval-
Couetil (2013).

RESEARCH PROBLEM:
Entrepreneurship plays a very important role in terms of generation of
employment opportunities, ensuring balanced economic development.
Entrepreneurial development accelerates the growth of MSMEs in India. These
enterprises are expected to be more innovative and make the industrial sector to
compete in the global market effectively. The advantage of Entrepreneurial
Education leads to freedom, flexibility, economic growth and development. It
also develops core leadership quality among management students..

REVIEW OF LITERATURE:
S. No Author Year Topic Major Findings
1. Douglas E 1999 Self Employment Attitude towards
as a career income, risk and
choice. work effort.
2. Henderson & 2000 Who wants to be Teachers and career
Robertson a Entrepreneur? guidance
Young adults counsellors were
attitudes to perceived to have
 Entrepreneurship. little impact.
3. Erich J 2003 Students Attitude towards
Intention money have a
Towards strong positive
Entrepreneurship. impact on
entrepreneurial
intent
4. Carrayannis 2003 A cross-cultural Experimental
learning strategy learning and
for learning along
entrepreneurship cross culture seems
education beneficial.
5. Nikolas & Luthje 2004 Entrepreneurial Students showed
Intentions of entrepreneurial
Business intentions stronger
Students and more ambitious
in terms of business
growth.
6. Evan d 2005 Students attitude The study found no
and intention relationship
towards between risk
entrepreneurship propensity and
in India. entrepreneurial
intention
significant positive
relationships were
also found between
entrepreneurial self
efficacy and
entrepreneurial
intention
7. Gurrero et al 2008 The impact of It was found that
desirability and 77% of the total
feasibility on sample considered
entrepreneurial desirable to create a
intentions. new firm.
8. Garis and Gibson 2008 A study of Results indicated
students attitude that the majority of
towards students possessed
Entrepreneurship entrepreneurial
with regard to attitudes.
Coimbatore city.
9. Jones et al 2008 Education and The findings
 Entrepreneurial suggested that an
activity. equal proportion of
male and female
students aged 18 –
24 favoured a
future
entrepreneurial
career.
10. Othman and Ishak 2009 Attitude towards Monetary value and
choosing a career autonomy were
in significant factors
entrepreneurship that inspire
amongst graduate towards
graduates. entrepreneurship.
11. Muhammad Zaman 2013 Entrepreneurial Results of the t-test
characteristics showed that
among university entrepreneurially
students. prone students are
innovative and
highly motivated.
12. Rimamnde 2015 Variation of The Findings
RIkwentishe Attitude among revealed there is no
University significant
Students towards difference of
Entrepreneurship attitude between
Education male and female
students towards
entrepreneurship
education.
13. Fasla N.P 2017 A study of The study suggests
Entrepreneurship students attitude
attitude among towards
college students. entrepreneurship is
very good. Also,
the government and
concerned
authorities take
remedial actions to
solve problems
14. S. Arun Kumar 2018 Study of The students
association consider it as a
between students career option, and it
and opportunities will provide them a
 of profit.
entrepreneurship.
15. Tariq Hussain 2018 Attitude towards It concluded that
Entrepreneurship: the students of
an exploration of technology
technology education showed
education positive attitude
students towards
entrepreneurship.

HYPOTHESES:
 There seems to be a significant relationship between management
students participation in entrepreneurship education and their view of
entrepreneurship as a future career.
 There seems to be a significant relationship between age of students and
attitude towards entrepreneurship education.
 There is a significant relationship between gender of students and attitude
towards entrepreneurship.

OBJECTIVES:
 To study the attitude of management students towards entrepreneurship.
 To find the willingness among management students towards being an
entrepreneur
 To investigate whether management students view entrepreneurship
intentions of students.
 To identify factors that influence entrepreneurship intentions of students.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:
The Research has used/will use only primary data collection. Primary
data collection is done with help of structured questionnaire. The questionnaire
consists of questions related to demographical variables and then it includes
Entrepreneurial interests and willingness of risk among the management
students. Questionnaires were distributed as Google forms.
This study employed a descriptive research design that uses a
survey/questionnaire strategy for data collection. A descriptive research is all
about describing people who took part in the study as to provide information
about the naturally occurring status, behaviour, attitudes or other characteristics
of a particular group.

QUESTIONNAIRE:

1. Name: ________________________
2. Gender: M/F: ________________
3. Age (in years):_________
4. Email id : ____________
5. Educational Quallification : __________
6. Do you have any work experience? Y/N: ________
7. If yes please mention
a) Organisation :
b) Duration :
8. Have you attended any entrepreneurship development /awareness
programme? Y/N :___
9. Has your institute conducted any programme related to entrepreneurship
recently? Y/N:

10. How interested are you in setting your own business immediately after your
MBA?
1) Very much uninterested
2) Uninterested
3) Neutral
4) Interested
5) Very much interested
11. How likely is it that you will start your own business within five years of
completing your MBA?
1) Very much unlikely
2) Unlikely
3) Neutral
4) Likely
5) Very much Likely

12. How attractive it would be for you to start a business?

1) Very much unattractive
2) Unattractive
3) Neutral
4) Attractive
5) Very much attractive

13. How easy would it be for people in general to start a business?

1) Very difficult
2) Difficult
3) Neutral
4) Easy
5) Very easy

14. How attractive is it for people in general to start a business?

1) Very much unattractive
2) Unattractive
3) Neutral
4) Attractive
 5) Very much attractive

15. In your institute students are actively encouraged to pursue their own ideas
1) Strongly disagree
2) Disagree
3) Neutral
4) Agree
5) Strongly agree

16.You require lots of money to start a business

1) Strongy disagree
2) Disagree
3) Neutral
4) Agree
5) Strongly agree

17.Venturing into entrepreneurship is a risky business

1) Strongy disagree
2) Disagree
3) Neutral
4) Agree
5) Strongly agree

18.Entrepreneurship is a rewarding career

1) Strongy disagree
2) Disagree
3) Neutral
4) Agree
5) Strongly agree