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Motivational factors those Enforce Business students for Become Entrepreneur: A Case Study of Sindh, Pakistan

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Purpose: Pakistan, a least favourable country for the business with most of its population is youth. 63% of Pakistan’s youth is under the age of 25. Though the country on one hand is producing a huge number of business graduates every year while on other hand economic condition of country is declining continuously, this situation can only be handled through motivating youth towards entrepreneurship.
Design / Methodology / Approach: This research was conducted through primary data; the data has been collected with the help of adopted questionnaire and the total numbers of respondents for this study were 330 final year students of BBA & MBA from Karachi and Hyderabad. The variables such as business graduates to become entrepreneur, intrinsic rewards, extrinsic rewards, autonomy, and family security and change management were studied. For the analysis, various statistical techniques have been applied such as reliability analysis and multiple regressions for the conclusion of this study.
Findings: All the above studied variables are found significant and positive except change management on business graduate to become entrepreneur after graduation.
Originality / Value: The previous studies in the literature focus personality characteristics, constraints and issued faced by young entrepreneur in Pakistan. This study will emphasize the impact of education to entrepreneur, according to our limited knowledge the business education with respect to entrepreneur has not studied before this.
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In-Text Citation: (Junejo, Ali, Mustaque, & Iqbal, 2018)
To Cite this Article: Junejo, I., Ali, A., Mustaque, A., & Iqbal, R. (2018). Motivational factors those Enforce Business students for Become Entrepreneur: A case study of Sindh, Pakistan. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(9), 835–850.