Kecenderungan keusahawanan dalam kalangan Orang Asli

• Main Author: Siti Nur Aisyah, Alias
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: GN495.6 Ethnicity.; HB Economic Theory
• Online Access: https://etd.uum.edu.my/4094/1/s813375.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/4094/2/s813375_abstract.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/4094/

Poverty among indigenous people is a challenge for the government in its efforts to deal with it. Various plans have been implemented, but the community is still plagued by poverty. The government aims to increase Aboriginal participation in entrepreneurship, which is considered as a development strategy that is easy and fast to improve the economy of a community. Accordingly, researchers have put forward the five indicators of personality pro-active, innovative, risk considerations, financial support and family support to be evaluated as factors influencing entrepreneurship among indigenous peoples. The study was conducted using the questionnaire instrument towards 115 respondents of Aboriginal from Kampung Lubok Legong, Baling Kedah. These surveys were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The T-Test and ANOVA test for examining the differences between demographic factors and entrepreneurship intention. Other tests such as Correlation were used to identify the relationship between pro-active personality, innovation, risk taking consideration, financial support than family support towards entrepreneurship intention. Moreover, the Regression test was to determine the influence of the factors on entrepreneurship intention among indigenous peoples. The findings showed that the influence of the entrepreneurial propensity among Aboriginal from Kampung Lubok Legong only to the degree of 42 percent that was contributed by pro-active personality factor and financial support factor. Factors such as the innovative, risk taking considerations and perceived family support does not lead to entrepreneurship among indigenous peoples.