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  title info:
    title: Antecedents of financial practice for the success of small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
    sub title: an empirical study in Malaysia
  name:
    name part: Azam, S.M. Ferdous
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    place:
      place term: Kuala Lumpur : bKulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia
    date issued: 2015
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: xxiii, 357 leaves : ill. ; 30cm.
  abstract: The world metaphorically has turned flat for the onslaught of globalization. While it has blurred the geographical divides, it has as well, as its corollary, spawned fierce competition among the enterprises in the marketplace. The competitive trade atmosphere has furnished the contemporary business industry intensely over its rivals and its ability to cope with multiple challenges to be successful, especially in terms of financial means. Although the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered as the backbone of economic growth of a country, however SMEs in Malaysia are noted with dismay due to unexpected business failures. Despite the fact that many scholarly works have been conducted in Malaysia, nevertheless, the strong influence of the antecedents of financial practice such as Financial Knowledge (FK) and Financial Behaviour (FB) toward Financial Practice (FP) as well as Business Success (BS) are yet to be realized pertinently. For that reason, the current study emphasizes a variety of detailed theoretical perspectives as well as the empirical foundations for achieving the research objectives. In fact, these theoretical and empirical platforms make the research feasible in the areas of Financial Knowledge (FK), Financial Behaviour (FB), Financial Practice (FP) and Business Success (BS) of Malaysian SMEs. The research method of this study is 'survey method' and the unit of analysis is the individual respondent consisting business owners and managers from various SMEs in Selangor and the greater Kuala Lumpur region. Although a suitable sample of 63 business owners and managers of different SMEs were selected for the pilot study, later on, a sample of 302 data was considered as the final sample size for the current study. Since this is a quantitative research, so the primary empirical findings are reported using SPSS (Version 18.0), and then detailed out various investigations using AMOS (Version 16.0) software for executing the suitable Structural Equation …
  note: by S.M. Ferdous Azam
  note: Abstracts in English and Arabic.
  note: " A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration."--On t. p.
  note: Thesis (Ph.D)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2015.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-329).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-my---
  subject:
    topic: Small business
    topic: Finance
    geographic: Malaysia
  subject:
    topic: Small business
    topic: Management
    geographic: Malaysia
  classification: HD2346.M4
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/2984
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 150701
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng