Abstract
Today entrepreneurship is widely recognized as an engine for economic
growth and prosperity. In this connection, diverting intention of an
individual towards entrepreneurship is essential for every economy. To take
into account, the purpose of this study to identify factors that may influence
on student’s intention towards entrepreneurship. This is conceptualized
with the support of Entrepreneurial Event Model (EEM). This study
proposes quantitative methodology in which cross-sectional data is randomly
collected from various public sector universities of Thailand through a
survey questionnaire by using SurveyMonkey. The respondents were
graduate and master students. After cleaning the data, 304 samples were
used for the final usage. The response rate was 53 %. Statistical Package for
Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0 and Analysis of Moment Structure
(AMOS) were applied for the data analysis. The results of Structural
Equation Modeling (SEM) show that there is a positive and significant
relationship of perceived feasibility and perceived desirability with
entrepreneurial intention. On the other hand, there is non-significant
relationship between self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. This study
may be beneficial for policy makers to formulate the policies regarding the
promotion of entrepreneurship because the mind of people is promptly
heading towards entrepreneurship. Furthermore, it may contribute in the
domain literature of entrepreneurship and particularly for developing countries
Dr. Bahadur Ali, Dr. Naimatullah Shah, Sadia Anwar. (2016) INVESTIGATING ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION THROUGH ENTREPRENEURIAL EVENT MODEL (EEM) AMONG GRADUATE AND MASTER STUDENTS IN PUBLIC SECTOR UNIVERSITIES OF THAILAND, Asia Pacific, Vol-34, Issue 1.
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