ABSTRACT

TITLE :FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE B.S.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP 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 age, gender, and work experience of the

respondents.