INFLUENCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATES IN SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA

Akeem Akinlolu AKINKUOLIE, Titus A. Umoru, Lawrence F. Ademiluyi

Abstract


The study focused on the influence of Entrepreneurial skills on entrepreneurial intention of business education undergraduates in South-West, Nigeria. Descriptive research design was used for this study. Two research questions and two research hypotheses guided this study. The population of this study comprised 1282 Business Education undergraduates from six Universities offering Business Education in south-West, Nigeria. Using proportional sampling techniques, 642 Business Education undergraduates were selected as the sample size. Researcher’s self-developed questionnaire tagged: Influence of financial Entrepreneurial skills on entrepreneurial intention of Business Education, undergraduates (IESPTETBEU) with 0.83 reliability coefficient was used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while linear regression analysis was used to answer the hypotheses. The findings indicated that Business Education undergraduates possess financial management skills to a very high extent (mean = 3.45, SD = 0.71), Business Education undergraduates possess Marketing Skills to a very high extent (mean = 3.39, SD = 0.73. it was further revealed that financial management and marketing skills significantly influenced entrepreneurial intention of business education undergraduates (B = 0.33; t(6.40) = 9.03, p = 0.000 and B = 0.29; t(6.40) = 7.56, P = 0.000). It was recommended that the development and growth of entrepreneurial skills and attitudes found to be facilitated by financial management skills, it is therefore imperative to inculcate these ideas into business education undergraduates by all relevant stakeholders with the view to sustaining their entrepreneurial intention.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial intention, Financial Management, Marketing, Skills. 


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