ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TRAINEES’ GREEN ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS, EVENTS AND FEARS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Going green has created significant enthusiasm across society and green entrepreneurial intention is still at the evolving stage. The main objective of this study was to assess the green entrepreneurial intention, events and fear of environmental management trainees in Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey was conducted through a structured questionnaire among the environmental management trainees. A multi–staged sampling technique was used to select 240 respondents. The findings of the results revealed that a majority of the respondents (79.2 %) had a family size of less than or equal to 6 members while the mean family size of the respondents is approximately 5 persons. A majority of the respondents (49.2 %) are between the ages of 21 to 25 years of age while the mean age of the respondents is approximately 22 years, received a student’s monthly stipend (52.2 %) of between 10,000 Naira and 20,000Naira while the mean students' monthly allowance was 16,017.70 Naira. The entrepreneurial intention (3.32), entrepreneurial event (3.13) and entrepreneurial fear (3.18) of the respondents were on average. The result of the study seeks to provide information to the stakeholders to explore opportunities for green entrepreneurial ventures among environmental management trainees. Colleges may offer adapted academic courses, or training programs to trigger the green business initiative among the students and this will be beneficial for the students in learning the essentials of green entrepreneurial intention, thus enhancing a better entrepreneurial experience and reducing entrepreneurial fright.