Abstract:
Becoming an entrepreneur is one crucial thing, which has become a
necessity for the survival of the livelihood and the country presently.
However, still there is a riddle about which factors determine the
entrepreneurial orientation of undergraduates in Sri Lanka. Therefore, the
purpose of this study was to find out the effect of educational support,
relational support and structural support on the entrepreneurial orientation
of management undergraduates from Sri Lankan state universities through
the lens of social exchange theory. The deductive approach was utilized in
this study. In this approach, educational support, relational support and
structural support were used as the independent variables to predict the
impact on individual entrepreneurial orientation. It was examined in a
sample of 391 management undergraduates from state universities, with the
help of the online questionnaire through the convenient sampling method.
Research findings concluded that all three factors such as educational
support, relational support and structural support have a significant impact
on the individual entrepreneurial orientation of management graduates.
However, structural support has an uppermost impact level on individual
entrepreneurial orientation than others. It is revealed that the more
structural support, the more orientation the undergraduates would have.
This study would shed new light on the entrepreneurial orientation of young
graduates from Sri Lanka.
