The Growing Trend of Social Entrepreneurship among Malaysian Undergraduate Students

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship is viewed as having the abilities to combat socio-economic problems in which government, businesses, and non-profits may not be able to solve the problems alone. Consequently, the collaboration among these sectors are needed to create social values and development in a nation, specifically among the developing economies. Therefore, it is the best time to investigate the vital factors lead the university’s student to form social entrepreneurial intention. This study employed quantitative and cross-sectional approach. The empirical data collected from approximately 1,066 students of Malaysian public universities from multidisciplinary faculties was used. There are eight (8) relationships have been tested. Only five (5) relationships were proven significant and consistent with prior findings. It is hoped that the findings of this study will shed light on the existing literature of social entrepreneurship, specifically the social entrepreneurial intention studies from the emerging economies perspective.