ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: UNDERSTANDING THE BEHAVIOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AMONG TWO VETERINARY UNIVERSITIES
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2022-04
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SRI VENKATESWARA VETERINARY UNIVERSITY TIRUPATI - 517 502. (A.P.) INDIA
Abstract
The present study was undertaken to determine entrepreneurial intention among
the final year undergraduate students of two veterinary universities i.e., Sri Venkateswara
Veterinary University, Andhra Pradesh and P. V. Narasimha Rao Telangana Veterinary
University, Telangana. It also aims to determine the factors influencing the
entrepreneurial intention. The present research work was carried out in all the nine
constituent colleges of both universities in three fields i.e., veterinary, dairy and fisheries.
Ex-post facto research design was adopted for this study and a sample size of 149 final
year students were selected through proportionate random sampling procedure. The data
was collected from the students through well designed questionnaire using both print and
electronic (google) forms.
The results revealed that majority of veterinary, dairy and fishery students were
in the age group of 21-23 years. Majority of the veterinary, dairy respondents were male
whereas, most of the fishery respondents were female. Majority of students were Hindus,
with education at private school and had nuclear family with small family size. Most of
the veterinary students belong to general category, whereas half of the dairy and fishery
students belong to OBC category. Majority of dairy and half of the fishery students were
from rural area, whereas equal percentage of veterinary students belong to both rural and
urban areas. Most of the fathers of veterinary and fishery students had graduation,
whereas, most of the dairy students’ fathers were with secondary education. Most of the
mothers of veterinary students had graduation whereas, dairy and fishery student’s
mothers were with secondary education. Fathers of veterinary and dairy students were
engaged in agriculture/A.H related activities whereas, fathers of fishery students were
employed in occupations other than agriculture and employment. Mothers of majority
students were homemakers. Majority of veterinary students’ families were with annual
income of less than Rs.2.5-5 lac whereas, majority of the dairy students were with family
income of Rs.1-2.5 lac and fishery students with less than Rs.1 lac per annum. Majority
of the students were from middle class with no prior exposure to enterprise and were
receiving financial assistance from family. More than three fourth mentioned that they
had received curriculum support towards entrepreneurial orientation from their courses.
Veterinary, dairy and fishery students had similar levels of creativity, need for
achievement, locus of control, risk taking property, need for autonomy, innovativeness,
self-confidence, knowledge of entrepreneurship, decision-making ability, entrepreneurial
attitude and entrepreneurial intention with majority being with medium level.
Correlation analysis of independent variables with entrepreneurial intention of
students revealed that creativity, need for achievement, locus of control, risk taking
property and entrepreneurial attitude showed positive and significant relation with
entrepreneurial intention at 0.01 level of probability, whereas, the variables family size
and prior exposure to enterprise showed positive and negative significant association at
0.05 level of probability, respectively. The remaining five variables i.e., need for
autonomy, innovativeness, self-confidence, knowledge of entrepreneurship and decision making ability didn't establish any significant correlation with the entrepreneurial
intention among the total students studied. Multiple regression analysis revealed that, the
variables family size and knowledge of entrepreneurship showed positive relationship at
0.05 level of probability with entrepreneurial intention, whereas, creativity, need for
achievement, locus of control and risk-taking property had positive and prior exposure to
enterprise had negative relationship at 0.01 level of probability. The remaining variables
viz., need for autonomy, innovativeness, self-confidence and decision-making ability did
not show any significant relation with the entrepreneurial intention of the students. The
co-efficient of determination (R2
) of the independent variables was 0.593 which means
that 59.30 per cent of total variation in the entrepreneurial intention of the students was
explained by the 12 selected independent variables.
Orientation and motivation of students by utilizing mentor services from
successful entrepreneurs during internship programmes may further improve
entrepreneurial attitude and entrepreneurial intention among the three categories i.e.,
veterinary, dairy and fishery students
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