The emergence of opportunity is based on the intentions which are the result of people’s belief and the way of thinking. Entrepreneurial alertness is considered vital for identifying the opportunity which can have an impact on mindset for exploiting the opportunities. The objective of this study was to analyze the connection between opportunity identification and intentions formation through entrepreneurial alertness based on the theory of planned behavior. The data was collected from the 499 final year business students of nine universities from Sindh, Pakistan using cross-sectional survey. The results of this study revealed that entrepreneurial alertness has positive and significant effect on attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and entrepreneurial intentions. The findings of this study contributed to the theory of planned behavior by taking entrepreneurial alertness as a predictor of entrepreneurial intentions. The findings also have implication for increasing the supply of entrepreneurial capital into the society.

Personality has been found to be a primary antecedent to gauge entrepreneurial intentions of an individual. A holistic view of personality is better at understanding this relationship, and may be of more benefit to the individual and assessor. Among students of higher education institutions, entrepreneurial intentions are declining. Individuals with higher entrepreneurial intentions respond better to experiential teaching methodology. In this was higher education institutions may be able to increase the entrepreneurial intentions of the students by using experiential teaching methodologies. This study proposes the use of experiential teaching methodology as a moderator to better understand the relationship between; entrepreneurial proactivity, entrepreneurial creativity, entrepreneurial opportunism and entrepreneurial vision with entrepreneurial intentions. This study also elaborates on the use of entrepreneurial event model as the underpinning theory and human capital theory as the supporting theory to build the proposed research framework.

Kajian ini meninjau kehidupan usahawan asnaf di negeri Kedah yang menerima bantuan zakat dalam program Bantuan Jayadiri. Kertas ini membincangkan secara deskriptif tentang latar belakang peribadi, latar belakang perniagaan dan juga tahap prestasi perniagaan, bantuan zakat, simpanan, motivasi, jaringan dan latihan usahawan asnaf. Data dikumpul melalui soal selidik dan temu bual ke atas 49 orang usahawan asnaf menggunakan persampalen bertujuan di negeri Kedah. Kebanyakan mereka adalah wanita berbangsa Melayu, berkahwin dan berpendidikan di peringkat sekolah menengah, terlibat dalam perniagaan berasaskan makanan yang sedang berkembang. Dengan menggunakan analisis deskriptif, kajian ini mendapati prestasi perniagaan, bantuan zakat, motivasi, jaringan berada pada tahap min yang tinggi. Manakala simpanan dan latihan di tahap min sederhana. Dapatan ini menunjukkan usahawan asnaf memerlukan lagi bantuan zakat dan program latihan bagi membantu mereka untuk meningkatkan prestasi perniagaan dan simpanan kewangan seterusnya keluar dari kemelut kemiskinan serta menjadi pembayar zakat pada masa akan datang.