Graduate Entrepreneurial Intention in South Africa: Motivations and Obstacles
By O. Fatoki. 2010
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This study investigates the entrepreneurial intention of South African graduates as well as the motivators andobstacles to entrepreneurial intention. 701 students in their final year of study participated in the survey and datawas collected through self-administered questionnaires. The principal component analysis, T-test and descriptivestatistics were used for data analysis. The results indicate that the entrepreneurial intention of South Africanstudents is very weak. In addition, the study identified five motivators of entrepreneurial intention. These areemployment, autonomy, creativity, economic and capital. The obstacles to entrepreneurial intention of SouthAfrican graduates are capital, skill, support, risk, economy and crime. Recommendations to reduce the obstaclesto graduate entrepreneurship are suggested.
Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Entrepreneurship education, curriculum and lecturer-competency as antecedents of student entrepreneurial intention (2019, background): “Through this programme, students are made aware of the different ways to start business ventures as well as the support services available (Fatoki, 2010; Katundu & Gabagambi, 2016).”
- An Assessment of Entrepreneurship Intention Among Sunyani Polytechnic Marketing Students (2013, background): “This result is also contrary to the findings of Olufunso (2010) in South Africa in which the biggest obstacle was lack of savings and difficulties in obtaining bank finance.”
- Perceived public support and entrepreneurship attitudes: A little reciprocity can go a long way! (2020, background): “In South Africa, perceived difficulties in accessing bank finance were found to be the main obstacles (Fatoki, 2010).”