Open AccessEntrepreneurial Intention among Students to Venture into Entrepreneurship through Flea Market Retailing in Oman
Author(s) -
Noor Alshanfari,
Hasliza Hassan,
Melissa Wendy Migin
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of business and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2590-3721
DOI - 10.26666/rmp.ijbm.2022.1.3
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , government (linguistics) , marketing , business , unemployment , theory of planned behavior , public policy , economic growth , public relations , economics , management , finance , political science , control (management) , linguistics , philosophy
Entrepreneurship is a vital economic activity to support local communities. It is perceived as a significant avenue for influencing the youngsters to a start-up business. The growing number of graduates annually has become one of the main challenges for the Omani government. Therefore, entrepreneurship has become one of the essential measures for reducing the escalating unemployment rate due to the low national recruitment rate in the public and private sectors in Oman. This research aims to examine the extent of the entrepreneurial intention of youngsters, especially among 322 tertiary students from colleges of applied sciences in Oman, to venture into entrepreneurship through the flea market retailing by adopting the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The findings highlight the impact of education on entrepreneurial intentions, which will provide resources in the area of entrepreneurial education to online libraries for research students and also provides useful policy directions to the Oman government in its effort to actively promote entrepreneurship and business ventures through the Al Raffd Funds.