PERCEIVED SUPPORT AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS AMONG OMANI UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Year 2022, Volume: 9 Issue: 4, 156 - 164, 31.12.2022

Raja Tumatı Nvr Jyoti Kumar

Abstract

Purpose – The study's goal is to determine whether there is a relationship between family income, the father's occupation, education, and study plan, and Omani students' perceived support for entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the research will look into the relationship between Omani underground students' perceived support and their entrepreneurial intentions.
Methodology – The study employed deductive research methodology and a quantitative research approach since it was empirical research that employed analytical techniques to provide quantifiable data. The descriptive research design was also employed because it summarises the characteristics of the population or problem under consideration. Furthermore, the purposive sampling strategy, a non-probability sampling technique, was used as the study's sampling strategy. In total, 478 undergraduate Omani students were chosen as respondents, and the data was analysed using descriptive and regression techniques using the latest version of the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software, 21.0.
Findings – The findings indicate that students have a favourable perception of support for entrepreneurship. The highest mean scores recorded for the place where students live indicate sufficient awareness of entrepreneurship (4.51) and that college experience and knowledge have inspired them to become entrepreneurs (4.35), with a verbal interpretation of "strongly agree" for both factors. Besides family income, the father's occupation, education, and study plan had no discernible influence on Omani students' intentions to start their own businesses. It denotes that the hypothesis factors have no bearing on entrepreneurial inclinations. Furthermore, Pearson's correlation of 0.720 and p-value of 0.000 < 0.05 indicated that entrepreneurial intention is highly and significantly correlated with perceived entrepreneurship support.
Conclusion - The results of the study show that Oman's underground students have a moderately high perceived level of support for entrepreneurship. Besides, students believe they have support from the government, their families, and friends to achieve their business ambitions after graduation. A link between students' perceived entrepreneurial support and their entrepreneurial goals was also discovered by the study.

Keywords

Perceived support, entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurs, Omani students, relationship

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