Undergraduate Students' Entrepreneurial Motives, Nigeria

Abstract

A limited number of articles have been published on entrepreneurial motives. This paper aims to identify entrepreneurial motives of Undergraduate students in Nigeria. The population consists of (n=225) Nigerian undergraduate students. The Aspiring Entrepreneurial Motivation Questionnaire (AEMQ), KMO and Bartlett's Test for entrepreneurial motives were used for data collection. Analysis of the KMO and Barlett's Test indicated Following Family Traditions as the most significant entrepreneurial motive. It was recommended that undergraduate students should be taken as apprentice by mentors with family businesses and further research should be done in other states and schools.