The Effects Social Support To The Z Generation’ Intention Tobe An Entrepreneur

Hefrida Suryanti Situmorang, Vivi Gusrini Rahmadani Pohan, Eka Danta Jaya Ginting

Abstract


Generation Z is the generation born in 1997-2010 who will or have entered the workforce. But different from the previous generation, Generation Z has its own advantages where generation Z is called the I-generation because Generation Z lives in a digital environment that is growing rapidy and also they born in the same time where digital technology grow up all over the world.  So Gen Z so easy to get support from social media as the way to comunication and to get informations. Generation Z get support from family and  as well as friends as their comunity.  In this study conducted on respondents who are Generation Z as many as 229 respondence who live in Medan, Indonesia and also already get work in many kind of jobs. Various studies show that Generation Z has a fairly high intention to become an entrepreneur, in others studies shows that one of the job dream of this generation is tobe self employee, they dream to have job without working hours and freely work with their passion. In this study see that  social support have a positive and significant influence on the intention to become an entrepreneur in Generation Z. this study can be used as guideline for familly and also for government to involve social support for Gen Z intention tobe an antrepreneur.


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Entrepreneurship, Generation Z, Sosial Support.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v33.2.4464

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