The Analyze of Students Motivation toward Entrepreneurship (Case Study on the Last Semester of Business Administration Students at Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya)

Yusuf, M and Kusumanto, RD (2015) The Analyze of Students Motivation toward Entrepreneurship (Case Study on the Last Semester of Business Administration Students at Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya). Proceedings of THE 7TH INDONESIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, & SMALL BUSINESS. ISSN ISBN: 978-602-72342-3-9

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

The general objective of this study was to analysis of students’ motivation toward entrepreneurship and to identification the obstacle to entrepreneurship and also to undertake a study to develop a curriculum related to student motivation for entrepreneurship. The analyze of motivation in this research using the approaches of achievement motivation, affiliation motivation and motivation to power. The total sample used for the study was 180 respondents consisting. Data was analyzed using the descriptive statistics. Based on the analysis, it was shown that 61 students or 34 percent have the motivation to become entrepreneurs, while 119 students or 66 percent not motivated. Of the 61 students who have entrepreneurial motivation, majority of them (57.4 percent) motivated by the desire to achieve, about 13.1 percent motivated by the desire to affiliate and 29.5 percent motivated by the desire to power. The major problem faced by the students to entrepreneurship is capital. Of the 119 students who are not motivated, majority of them (44.5%) have capital constraints, about 27.7 percent because fear of failure and 27.7 percent do not know what running a business. A significant implication of the study is that to improve the understanding of entrepreneurship to students through the development of entrepreneurship curriculum that lead to increase student motivation for entrepreneurship. Other subjects also need to be developed or become extra curriculum such as microfinance and business plan or other relevant subjects.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Student
Divisions: Business Administration > Proceeding and Seminar
Depositing User: Mrs Trisni Handayani
Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2021 03:27
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2021 03:27
URI: http://eprints.polsri.ac.id/id/eprint/10375

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item