Correlation between Socio-Personal Variables and Entrepreneurial Orientation among Agriculture and Animal Sciences Undergraduates

Abstract

The benefits of entrepreneurship to the society and the economy as a whole are enormous. Career in entrepreneurship offers individuals with significant opportunities to achieve independence, reap greater financial payback and gain the economy. It creates jobs setting stage for a flourishing economy and makes people and their nations richer. Entrepreneurial behavior is a set of activities and practices by which individuals can autonomously generate and use different resources in combinations to pursue opportunities. Each has different capabilities for acquiring and applying entrepreneurial behaviors depends on their socio-economic conditions and experience. Generally, most people have very positive attitude towards entrepreneurship but only few people have actual plans of setting up a firm. Considering this present study conducted in Telangana state purposively to know the correlation between socio-personal variables and entrepreneurial orientation of the undergraduates. Pooled data revealed that family occupation, fathers’ education, family income, gender, birth status in family had positive and significant relationship and age was correlated positively and highly significantly with entrepreneurial orientation on other hand academic performance had highly negative significant correlation with entrepreneurial orientation.