Most of the young people feel very upset about the occupation choice, so they do various preparations for the future. The deteriorating economic situation and the low employment rate results in that the young people could not find suitable jobs after ...
Most of the young people feel very upset about the occupation choice, so they do various preparations for the future. The deteriorating economic situation and the low employment rate results in that the young people could not find suitable jobs after graduation in China. In the last ten years, the university graduates in China have increased six times, and it is close to 6,000,000. Due to the severely increased number of the graduates, the wages are becoming low on one hand, and the unemployment is rising gradually on the other hand. For there reasons, 2/3 young people in China is willing to be as the civil servants who have no competition pressure or to work in state-owned enterprises. Through the university education, the economy have been developed, but it couldn ̓t create more jobs for graduates which make South Korea and India feel upset, and it is also a troubled thing for the Chinese government. Because entrepreneurship could solve this problem, so that it receives more attention from people recently. Entrepreneurship can not only solve the employment problems of their own, but also can solve the problem of employment of other people in the process of entrepreneurship. Therefore, the activity of entrepreneurship can not only activate the economy, but also it can be said to bo the most effective means to create jobs. Actually, in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intention can be said to be he first stage of
entrepreneurship, and it is the most important part. For the study of factors that affecting the entrepreneurial intention are very much from the past to the present. But there do not have much research about how important that the social support is to entrepreneurs.
In this study, it aims local youth entrepreneur of Beijing and Hangzhou in China, and do a study on the relationship among the social support, entrepreneurial self-efficiency and entrepreneurial intention.
Through the study, it is confirmed that the social support does play a positive role to entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. In addition, the study also found that parents and family ̓s material support and emotional support and information support from friends are all influential variables to the entrepreneurial intention, while social support become a medium of entrepreneurial self-efficacy that also affect the entrepreneurial intention. Four hypotheses have been confirmed as affecting factors. These are the social support, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention, and the medium played by the social support between the entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention.
Besides, for Chinese young entrepreneur, the social support, especially the support from parents and family and support from friends, plays a positive role to the entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. Compared with the parents and family ̓support, the support from friends plays a more important role. That is to say, to the yong entrepreneur, the more support receives from parents, family and friends, the entrepreneurial intention will be stronger.
Key words: entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intention, social support, entrepreneurial self-efficacy