Social entrepreneurship and employability of student entrepreneurs

The mediating roles of perceived support and perceived usefulness

Bibliographic Data

ID22188241
AuthorsHamood M Alenezi (0000-0003-3573-7777, Northern Border University), Sania Khan (0000-0003-3072-8310, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University), Noor Raihani Zainol (0000-0002-6091-2509, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan), Solomon Gbene Zaato (0000-0001-9318-8791, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan), Azam Malik (0000-0001-8726-3361, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University), Ali Ahmed Khan (0000-0002-9111-8703, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University)
Year2024
Volume8
Issue8
Pages4886
Publication date2024-08-21
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Infrastructure Policy and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2572-7923 • E-ISSN: 2572-7931
PublisherEnPress Publisher (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.24294/jipd.v8i8.4886
OpenAlexW4401789419
LanguageEN
References cited18

Universities continue to provide solutions to private and public sectors of the economy by providing a skilled economy, increasing employment potentials, and improving employee performance. This study offered a theoretical model on the contributing factors to graduate employability among student entrepreneurs in Malaysian Higher Education and the mediating mechanism of perceived support and usefulness in social entrepreneurship to solve the graduate unemployment problem. We attained data using purposive and face-to-face sampling methods with acceptable data from 296 undergraduates and analyzed with the SEM software from respondents of various cultural backgrounds. Findings suggest a positive significant relationship between motivations, skills in social entrepreneurship, knowledge, and social elements on graduate employability. Similarly, perceived support explained skills, knowledge and social elements’ relationship to graduate employability except for perceived usefulness. The outcome further discovered the perceived support role for graduates of social entrepreneurship in fostering job crafting and future employability with various implications and recommendations. The results require the application of other research approaches to provide concrete implementations and social and economic solutions. Insightful results and proposals helpful to policymakers like higher education curricula developers and implementers, scholars, government and private universities of this study can help curb graduate unemployment through social entrepreneurship

Business · Employability · Entrepreneurship · Entrepreneurship education · Pedagogy · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Psychology · Social Psychology

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