Abstract.docx

ABSTRACT TITLE

:FACTORS

THAT

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

INFLUENCE

THE

B.S.

STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY

OF EASTERN PHILIPPINES TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURS RESEARCHERS

: MARY ANN Y. TENEDERO and JUBERT A. ILOSO

ADVISER

: MRS. JOVIE B. VIVA, DBA

SCHOOL YEAR

: 2017 – 2018

SCHOOL

: UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PHILIPPINES

Nowadays, a lot of people want to put up their own business

but

does

not

have

the

knowledge,

courage

and

dedication to enter the said field. A lot of hesitations and drawbacks were hindering them to start the kind of business they want. This is the main reason why did they enrolled in business courses like B.S. Entrepreneurship just to gain knowledge of how to run a business and be one of those successful entrepreneurs of our society. This study aimed to find out factors that influence the B.S. Entrepreneurship students to become entrepreneurs and its relationship to their profile in terms of age, sex and work experience. The respondents of this study were the

selected B.S. Entrepreneurship

students of University of

Eastern Philippines particularly from the College of Business Administration. The research design that was used in this study was descriptive-correlational. This research design was used to describe the factors that influence students to become entrepreneurs and to determine if there was a significance relationship between the factors and the profile of the respondents. The researchers used the questionnaire in order to gather all the data needed. The questionnaire was composed of two parts: the profile of the respondents and the factors that

influence

students

to

become

entrepreneurs,

specifically, attitude towards entrepreneurship, perceived behavioural

control

and

entrepreneurial

intention.

The

sampling technique used in this study was fish ball sampling for the researchers to know how many per section would be the respondents. According to the result of the data gathered by the researchers

it

was

clear

that

there

was

no

significant

relationship between the profile of the respondents and the factors that influence them to become entrepreneurs. It was because the significance of the study is 0.734 was greater than 0.05 margin of error so the null hypothesis was accepted. It can be implied that the age, sex, and work experience was not affected by the factors that influence students to become

entrepreneurs. It was because there are some young and old students who are looking forward of becoming entrepreneurs. Majority of them are into business that’s why the factors do not affect their age. Not all the time, male and female have different perception in choosing their careers in the future. Some male and female have the same perception on choosing entrepreneurship as their career in the mere future. It has been found that the factors of entrepreneurship were not affected

by

respondents.

age,

gender,

and

work

experience

of

the