Entrepreneurial Intentions: What Factors Impact The High School’s Students? Marrakech, Morocco
Keywords:
accounting, finance, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intentions, high schools, students, MarrakeshAbstract
This study seeks to highlight the explanatory factors of the High schools’students’ entrepreneurial intention in Marrakech in order to identify the determinants that influence young people to become interested in entrepreneurship. A study was conducted on a random sample of 220 students from different high schools and different fields (Business, Engineering, health sciences). Information collection for the surveys was carried out by questionnaire. The information collected and processed made it possible to test the significant links between the variables of the hypotheses formulated. Thus, through the frequency, we detected the presence of entrepreneurial intention among the individuals questioned. Then, many factors influencing this students’ entrepreneurial intention were tested.
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