ENTREPRENEURSHIP POTENTIALS AMONG SELECTED FILIPINO PROFESSIONALS

Abstract

Majority of the Filipino people believe that the country is a good place for entrepreneurial undertaking. Young people and adults alike particularly females comprised a good number of entrepreneurs. There are strong supports from the public and private sectors. The Philippine government enacted laws to encourage entrepreneurship in the country. Among Filipino professionals, entrepreneurship potentials as revealed in this study obtained a mean average score between the minimum and average. The minimum, average and maximum scores were pre-set. This study used a self-assessment questionnaire composed of fifty Likert-scaled questions. The scale is within a four-point measurement from totally agree to totally disagree. Due to pandemic, convenience sampling was applied in this study. Participants who took part in this study were only those individuals within reach either through online or face-to-face access. They were mostly colleagues, friends, relatives, and acquaintances of the researcher. Various social media platforms such as Facebook messenger, LinkedIn, and e-mail were used to facilitate the distribution as well as retrieval of the self-assessment questionnaire. Out of 100 prospective respondents, only 82 responded. The survey was conducted from June to September 2021.