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Cultural Orientation and Entrepreneurial Intentions of Undergraduate Students of Government-Owned Tertiary Institutions in Lagos State

ELEGUNDE, Ayobami Folarin (Ph.D.), AJEMUNIGBOHUN, Sunday Stephen (Ph.D.)

Abstract

The need for university students in Nigeria to develop positive attitude
towards entrepreneurship cannot be over-stressed. This is as result of
high rate of unemployment in Nigeria. Thus, the study examined cultural
orientation and entrepreneurial intention of university graduates of
Government-Owned Institution in Lagos State. The study made use of
descriptive research design as well as stratified and purposive sampling
techniques were used to select the university undergraduates in Lagos
State University and University of Lagos. The study employed
questionnaire as the research instrument to collect primary data from
the students. The study used regression analysis to analysed the data
and it was found that individual values, subjective norms and social
norms have positive and significant influence on entrepreneurial
intention of the study. The study concluded that cultural orientation
predicts the entrepreneurial intention of university graduates in Lagos
State University and University of Lagos. The study recommended
among others that parents, spouses, teachers, successful entrepreneurs,
and other role models to positively influence entrepreneurship intention
of students in order to sustain enterprises development in Lagos State
and Nigeria at large. Also, university graduates should be more familiar
with the social happenings in their society or environment.

Keywords

Cultural Orientation, Entrepreneurial Intention, Individual Values, Subjective Norms, Social Norms,

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