Sustainability-Driven Entrepreneurial Intention Among Students in Malaysian Community Colleges: Some Initial Observations

The Malaysian government aimed to develop more competitive and innovative graduates to propel the country into becoming a high-income nation by 2025, in line with the Eleventh Malaysia Plan. In support of this initiative, the Department of Polytechnic and Community College Education (DPCCE) developed the Blueprint for Smart Green Polytechnic and Community Colleges (BSGPC) 2021-2026. The blueprint serves as a guideline to inculcate green entrepreneurship among students to become more innovative graduates. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the sustainability-driven entrepreneurial intention among community college students in Malaysia. Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), we investigated the relationships between subjective norms (SN), sustainability attitude (SA), and sustainability self-efficacy (SSE) with sustainability entrepreneurial intention (SEI). This study used a quantitative design based on the positivist approach. Data were collected using questionnaires from a sample of 83 final-year community college students in the Fashion and Apparel Programme. Based on structural equation modelling (SEM) using SMART PLS-SEM 3.0 software, the findings found significant relationships between SSE and SA with SEI among community college students. Several recommendations are presented for consideration for polytechnic and community colleges via the DPCCE to inculcate green entrepreneurship in the curriculum.