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- Title
Entrepreneurial Intention among Special Needs Students.
- Authors
Abbas, L. N.; Md Khair, S. N.
- Abstract
The involvement of the disabled in entrepreneurship is low. Many initiatives have been made by the government to increase the participation of the disabled in the business field. Entrepreneurship courses are introduced to the disabled as early as primary- and tertiarylevel education. This study investigates entrepreneurial intention among special needs students. The respondents of this study were 90 special needs students from polytechnics in Malaysia. This study employed components of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Descriptive analysis found that entrepreneurial intention among special needs students is high. T-test and One Way ANOVA analyses reported that a significant difference in entrepreneurial intention between the genders and courses taken in university. This study suggests that the management of polytechnics should provide resources to the polytechnics pertaining to entrepreneurship among special needs students.
- Subjects
ENTREPRENEURSHIP; PEOPLE with disabilities; PLANNED behavior theory; TECHNICAL education; ANALYSIS of variance
- Publication
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 2017, Vol 25S, p57
- ISSN
0128-7702
- Publication type
Article