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 Volume 4, Issue 12 (December 2017, Part 2), Pages: 179-184

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Relationship between human capital and social capital towards social entrepreneurial intention among the public university students

 Author(s): Mohd Azizee Jemari 1, Jati Kasuma 1, *, Hazami Mohd Kamaruddin 1, Harrison Amat Tama 1, Ibrahim Morshidi 2, Khadijah Suria 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA Sarawak, 94300 Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
 2Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA Sarawak, 94300 Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.012.032

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 Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship of human capital and social capital towards social entrepreneurial intention among public university students in Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. Self-administered questionnaire and assessed by using non-probability quota and judgmental sampling techniques. A total of 314 respondents in both public universities participated in the survey. The findings revealed that the social entrepreneurial human capital and social entrepreneurial social capital were found to be significant with strong correlation and positive relationship with the social entrepreneurial intention scale. Moreover, human capital found to be the strongest effect size rather than social capital. Besides, the perception from both universities towards social entrepreneurial intention is averagely same response. Recommendation for future study also discussed. 

 © 2017 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Social entrepreneurial intention, Human capital, Social capital, Entrepreneurship

 Article History: Received 27 December 2016, Received in revised form 11 September 2017, Accepted 25 October 2017

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.012.032

 Citation:

 Jemari MA, Kasuma J, Kamaruddin HM, Tama HA, Morshidi I, and Suria K (2017). Relationship between human capital and social capital towards social entrepreneurial intention among the public university students. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(12): 179-184

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