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    Entrepreneurial Career Paths of 1988-2003 Graduate Entrepreneurs

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    The document explores the entrepreneurial career paths of Malaysian graduates from 1988 to 2003. It examines their early career intentions, business startups, and levels of early entrepreneurial skills and initiatives. The study found that accidental paths were most common, followed by methodical, intuitive and incremental paths. Early entrepreneurial skills and initiatives were medium-high overall, and varied based on career path and field of study.

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    The document explores the entrepreneurial career paths of Malaysian graduates from 1988 to 2003. It examines their early career intentions, business startups, and levels of early entrepreneurial skills and initiatives. The study found that accidental paths were most common, followed by methodical, intuitive and incremental paths. Early entrepreneurial skills and initiatives were medium-high overall, and varied based on career path and field of study.

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    The document explores the entrepreneurial career paths of Malaysian graduates from 1988 to 2003. It examines their early career intentions, business startups, and levels of early entrepreneurial skills and initiatives. The study found that accidental paths were most common, followed by methodical, intuitive and incremental paths. Early entrepreneurial skills and initiatives were medium-high overall, and varied based on career path and field of study.

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    Entrepreneurial Career Paths of 1988-2003 Graduate Entrepreneurs

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    The document explores the entrepreneurial career paths of Malaysian graduates from 1988 to 2003. It examines their early career intentions, business startups, and levels of early entrepreneurial skills and initiatives. The study found that accidental paths were most common, followed by methodical, intuitive and incremental paths. Early entrepreneurial skills and initiatives were medium-high overall, and varied based on career path and field of study.

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    ENTREPRENEURIAL CAREER PATHS OF 1988-2003 GRADUATE ENTREPRENEURS

    ABSTRACT

    This study explored entrepreneurial career paths of graduate entrepreneurs who graduated from
    local and overseas higher learning institutions between 1988 to 2003. The entrepreneurial career
    paths explored included career-changing phases starting from early career intention up to
    business start-up. The study also aimed at identifying the level of early entrepreneurial
    initiatives and skills the entrepreneurs had before venturing into business. The different
    levels of early entrepreneurial initiatives and skills according to entrepreneurial career
    paths, the field of studies and the background of higher learning institutions were also
    examined. A set of questionnaire was constructed for the study and 399 graduate
    entrepreneurs were selected randomly representing the Malaysian graduate entrepreneurs’
    population. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS0 – Version 11.5 was used to
    analyze the data. Descriptive analyses such as the mean, frequency, percentage and
    standard deviation were used to present the entrepreneurs’ profile, business profile and
    career changing phases of the graduate entrepreneurs. Inferential statistical analyses such
    as t-test and One Way ANOVA were used to test the hypotheses and to address the
    research problems. The findings revealed that accidental path was the most popular
    entrepreneurial career path, followed by methodical, intuitive and incremental paths. The
    results of the study revealed that the level of early entrepreneurial initiatives and skills were
    categorized as medium-high. It also confirmed that there was a significant difference in
    early entrepreneurial initiatives according to entrepreneurial career paths and the field of
    studies. However, there was no significant difference in early entrepreneurial initiatives
    according to the background of higher learning institutions. The entrepreneurial skills were
    only significant according to the field of studies. Based on the findings, a number of
    suggestions to enhance the involvement of graduates in business are provided.

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