Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, ICSS 2019, 5-6 November 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia

Research Article

The Role of Islamic Work Ethics to Entrepreneurial Intention: The Study of Undergraduate Students in Indonesia

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292491,
        author={Gusti Oka Widana and Nurwati  Nurwati},
        title={The Role of Islamic Work Ethics to Entrepreneurial Intention: The Study of Undergraduate Students in Indonesia},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, ICSS 2019, 5-6 November 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICSS},
        year={2020},
        month={3},
        keywords={entrepreneurial intention islamic work ethics academic performance theory of planned behavior},
        doi={10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292491}
    }
    
  • Gusti Oka Widana
    Nurwati Nurwati
    Year: 2020
    The Role of Islamic Work Ethics to Entrepreneurial Intention: The Study of Undergraduate Students in Indonesia
    ICSS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-11-2019.2292491
Gusti Oka Widana1,*, Nurwati Nurwati1
  • 1: Institut Teknologi dan Bisnis Ahmad Dahlan, Indonesia
*Contact email: okawidana@itb-ad.ac.id

Abstract

Entrepreneurs is important bringing advancements of a country’s economy, yet entrepreneurs are created not born. Previous researches acknowledged that entrepreneurship activities were intentional based and having strong relationship with individual’s values or culture. As for Moslem, the inherent individual culture, is in form of Islamic Work Ethics, which should support entrepreneurship. This objective of this study is to reveal the role of Islamic Work Ethics in influencing entrepreneurial intention of Indonesian under graduate students. The study is much relevant, since the students are the candidates of entrepreneurs in the future. Upon using Structural Equation Modelling, the study finds strong relationship between all variables. The discussion of finding, as well as future research direction is provided.