Students’ propensity to become Halalpreneurs: are entrepreneurial characteristics equally applicable to gender divide in Malaysia

Jaiyeoba, Haruna Babatunde and Che Embi, Nor Azizan and Busari, Saheed Abdullahi (2021) Students’ propensity to become Halalpreneurs: are entrepreneurial characteristics equally applicable to gender divide in Malaysia. In: International Conference Achieving Sustainable Development (ASD 2021): Through Business Innovations & Digital Technologies”, 18th-19th October 2021, Dubai. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Entrepreneurship education has been identified as an important course of study that could directly influence student personality, create unconventional talents and skills, and undoubtedly increase students’ propensity to become halalpreneurs. Due to this, Malaysian government has mandated entrepreneurship courses to be taught in public universities to purposely foster entrepreneur skills in youths and increase their willingness to start viable and sustainable business enterprises, since it is practically impossible to absorb graduates entirely in formal salary wage employment. While efforts have been made to reveal the entrepreneurial characteristics that could contribute to students’ propensity to become halalpreneurs, we are still not sure whether such finding is equally applicable to gender divide, particularly in Malaysia. Hence, this study intends to examine whether the effects of entrepreneurial characteristics on students’ propensity to become halalpreneurs are equally applicable to gender divide in Malaysia. To this end, the study adopts quantitative research design to adequately address the stated research objective. Based on the adopted research design, a questionnaire was developed and used to collect data from 362 students (male = 196, female = 166) who have attended entrepreneurship courses and other related programmes from the Malaysian Islamic higher education institutions. Using second-order invariance analysis to analyse the responses received, it was found that the effects of entrepreneurial characteristics on students’ propensity to become halalpreneurs are indeed not the same across gender divide in Malaysia. Further analysis, through a post hoc test, revealed that the effects of some entrepreneurial characteristics are higher for male group than the female group. With these findings, Islamic higher education institutions are therefore encouraged to focus more, in addition to entrepreneurship courses, on viable discussions, workshops, and conferences that could help to increase both groups’ propensity to become halalpreneurs in Malaysia.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Slide Presentation)
Additional Information:	Online conference
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Halalpreneurs, Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Invariance Analysis, Gender, Malaysia
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5475.I74 Halal business, entrepreneur, marketing, management, and administration
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	International Institute for Halal Research and Training (INHART) Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
Depositing User:	Dr. Haruna Babatunde Jaiyeoba
Date Deposited:	05 Jan 2022 11:42
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2022 11:42
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/94186

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