IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ris/ijentr/0030.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Student Perceptions on Business Opportunities and Barriers for Business Start-Up in Oman

Author

Listed:
  • Hassan , Adil Bakheet

    (Sohar Unversity)

Abstract

In Oman, the entrepreneurship culture is enriched with programs that are initiated by private sectors and government. It helps the students in formulating the enterprise policies and improve activities that are related with entrepreneurship. Therefore, the study has mainly focused on the evaluation of students’ perception regarding barriers for starting a new business. The study has recruited 2529 students through cluster sampling from different universities in Oman. The survey was conducted through questionnaire, which consists of Likert scale questions. The data obtained from the students was analysed using SPSS version 20.0. Multiple regression test has been applied to investigate association between different variables. The results showed that half of the students agreed and were confident on their ability to prepare business plan on their own. On the other hand, 35% of the students were not confident about their abilities in organizing their marketing skills. The regression analysis revealed that entrepreneurial attitudes of students were positively associated with their perceptions of business opportunities. Moreover, entrepreneurship attitude of students is positively related to perceptions of barriers, when the students are focused on starting a new business. The results concluded that students were optimistic and interested in starting their own businesses.

Suggested Citation

  • Hassan , Adil Bakheet, 2018. "Student Perceptions on Business Opportunities and Barriers for Business Start-Up in Oman," International Journal of Entrepreneurship, Allied Business Academies, vol. 22(1), APRIL.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:ijentr:0030
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.abacademies.org/articles/student-perceptions-on-business-opportunities-and-barriers-for-business-startup-in-oman-7082.html
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Student Perceptions; Business Opportunities; Barriers; Start-Up; Oman.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ris:ijentr:0030. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Mouawiya Al Awad (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.abacademies.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.