Determinants of Entrepreneurial Attributes and Intentions among Young Professionals in the Kingdom Of Bahrain Lagaras Maria Cecilia P., CPA, DM Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, BAHRAIN Online published on 8 December, 2017. Abstract Responding to the thrust of the government of the Kingdom of Bahrain, the study assesses the entrepreneurial competencies of young Bahraini professionals and their intention to become entrepreneurs. It also determines the push and pull factors they will be facing in starting the business. Data were from 100 young Bahraini professionals as respondents using descriptive, self-administered questionnaire. They were chosen using a non-probabilistic sampling. Assessing their behavioral traits whether they are an employment oriented person or an entrepreneurial minded person, the result denotes that respondents are quite uncertain whether to become entrepreneur or employee. However, the study found out that young professionals have moderately strong personal entrepreneurial attributes and majority of them have the intention to do business. Their intentions are to improve their quality of lives, provide jobs to others, and self-satisfactions while the impediments are the limited financial resources, technical skills, time and family support and no innovative ideas. Data suggests that almost all competencies have high significant relationships between and among the competencies except for risk-taking variable and persuasion. There is low pattern of significant relationship between the demographic with the personal entrepreneurial competencies. The study concludes that entrepreneurial competencies can be potentially honed with appropriate identification and stimulation to become an entrepreneur particularly with appropriate business exposures, education, mentoring and experiences. Government support is highly sought during the transition period to the would-be young entrepreneurs. Top Keywords personal entrepreneurial competencies, intention to do business, young professionals, entrepreneurial minded person, employment oriented person, entrepreneurial push and pull factors. Top |