ANALYZING FACTORS AFFECTING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION OF AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENTS

Abstract

This research is to analyze factors affecting the entrepreneurial orientation focused on agricultural university students. The research location was the Faculty of Agriculture (University of Brawijaya) with a total sample of 340 students. The data analysis to answer the research problems was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). SEM is a statistical method allowing testing a series of relatively complex relationships simultaneously. The relationship can be developed from one or several dependent variables with one or several independent variables. Both variables are in the form of factors (constructs consisted of several indicators). The results show that the perception of structural support has direct and indirect effects on the entrepreneurial orientation of individual students. Furthermore, the perception of educational support does not directly affect the students’ IEO. However, the perception of educational support would affect IEO when mediated by self-efficacy.

Keywords

• entrepreneurial orientation
• agricultural university
• students
• structural equation modeling