Track: Business Management

Abstract

In today's world development, entrepreneurial education has a vital role besides functioning to improve life quality—productivity expected to reduce the number of unemployed in Indonesia. One solution to solve these conditions is to develop an entrepreneurial culture. Thus, the younger generation, e.g. students, can change their mindset from job seekers to job creator. Most educated young people tend to avoid this choice and even think as entrepreneurs, as they prefer to work in the company. One of the reasons is that they dare not take up risky jobs and desire to work as employees with a fixed salary every month. This paradigm has ingrained in most Indonesians who wish to work in an office. Entrepreneurship is the ability to create a business and instil an entrepreneurial spirit for students. This study investigates the role of self-efficacy, family environment and universities toward entrepreneurial intention among students in Indonesia context. The design of this study is a quantitative approach through a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 150 undergraduate students have participated in this study and collected by using a convenience sampling technique. This study used universities environment as a mediating variable and analysed using structural equation modelling through partial least square (SEM-PLS). This study found that self-efficacy and family environment have a significant positive relationship on entrepreneurial intention. We also found that universities' environment does not mediate the relationship between self-efficacy and family environment on entrepreneurial intention among Indonesia students. In conclusion, this study indicated that universities environment does not play a mediating role in influencing the entrepreneurial intention. Also, the family environment is a determinant factor in this investigation. In line with this study's findings, we suggest the universities pay attention to developing students' self-efficacy and creating an excellent universities environment to increase entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate students.     

Keywords: Self-efficacy, family environment, universities environment, entrepreneurial intention, and undergraduate students in Indonesia context