Within this research, we want to study if personality traits will be the significant predictors for entrepreneurial intention. Based on our literature surveys, which showed that personality traits are found significantly linked to entrepreneurial intention in developed countries, we want to focus on four personality traits: (1). self-efficacy, (2). needs for achievement, (3). locus of control, and (4). tolerance for risk. We collected the data from total of 200 university students in Malaysia through a self-administered questionnaire, and later analyzed using SEM PLS 3.0. We found that self-efficacy, locus of control, and tolerance for risk are indeed significant predictors, even though the need for achievement is not. Comparatively, a small sample size may lead to generalization issues, self-report bias, and cross-sectional design considered the main limitations of this study. We also revealed that tolerance for risk is the most influential factor in the entrepreneurial intention among university students. Thus, our finding contributes to the scholarly literature on entrepreneurship study in Malaysia, and provides some recommendation for universities to encourage and support entrepreneurship among students.

The term ‘Smartphone’ has commonly discussed among young adult especially students from higher learning institutional. Cell phone has becoming a part of their life-tool eventually. Young adult eventually used their phone to communicate with people, alarming themselves from few reminders, direct ways, downloading songs and games, texting messages and more. According to Rice and Katz (2008), the cell phone can be said as a social medium that developing into a multimedia digital platform which has the ability to provides, obtains, and shares personal and social information. However, the market eventually has a higher technology which is called Smartphone. Several industries have hurriedly espoused mobile devices, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) which have the capabilities of integrating wireless connections and mobile devices that auxiliary pushed the demand effectively in every industry by having a new buzzword, “Smartphone,” illustrates this popular PDA-phone amalgamation with numerous capabilities (Park and Chen, 2007). The factors affecting consumer demand towards Smartphone are complex in nature and usually there is no single factor or simple reason can be determined. Nowadays, consumers tend to shift their preferences from a basic cell phone to a Smartphone. It is obviously the major lead for mobile phone manufacturers to switch the production towards Smartphone due to high demand. The four independent variables under investigation in this study include product features, brand name, price and social influences. The dependent variable is the demand of Smartphone among young adult. Young adults may include fresh graduates with no working experience, industrial trainee from higher learning institutional or students that study in higher learning institutional. In other words, the target respondents are those youngsters whose age falls between 17 to 25. The main objective of this study is to develop a literature review of factors affecting the demand of Smartphone among young adult. This conceptual paper showed a strong relationship between the variables. A pilot test will be carried out to test the reliability of the variables.

The Covid-19 epidemic has compelled higher education institutions to adapt to numerous quick advances in order to replace conventional face-toface sessions. Various worries have been expressed by educational institutions all around the world, particularly about the influence of academics in surviving the epidemic. This study's primary purpose is to ascertain the mediating role of psychological empowerment, in the relationships between perceived organizational support, job characteristics, and skill utilization on employee engagement of academics in the Malaysian Private Higher Educational Institutions (PHEIs) during Covid-19 pandemic. The result of this study may contribute to the importance of the specific explanations that are required to be performed by academics and its respective Malaysian PHEIs in executing their responsibilities to its environment.

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Traditionally, everyone uses notes and coins or even credit cards and cheques for all business transactions, resulting in several problems such as inconvenience, inefficiency, and ineffectiveness. The limitation of traditional payment may cause delay in payment, high risk of theft, and fraud transaction. To reduce these problems, an e-wallet is introduced, and it helps to reduce fraud as the data stored in the mobile wallet are encrypted. An owner can reduce the limit and receive notification on any transaction. During the global pandemic, consumers are forced to follow the restriction of movement. Stores in Malaysia are closed, and consumers begin to buy things online aggressively. This study aims to determine the factors that affect the use of e-wallet among Gen-Y during the Global Pandemic using PLS-Sem analysis. Snowball sampling was used to gather 181 respondents via online surveys. This study adopted four variables, i.e., perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, benefits to users, and trust. Of them, two (perceived usefulness and trust) are supported.