Profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: An exploration in the Malaysian ICT sector

Entrepreneurship development is one of the strategic focuses of the Malaysian government in building the nation towards its Vision 2020. However there is no established profile of successful Malaysian entrepreneurs that shows relationship to their decision making styles. This study was motivated by...

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Main Author: Mohd Fauzi, Shaffie
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Published: 2013
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spelling my-mmu-ep.38962013-08-21T05:34:33Z Profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: An exploration in the Malaysian ICT sector 2013 Mohd Fauzi, Shaffie HB Economic theory. Demography Entrepreneurship development is one of the strategic focuses of the Malaysian government in building the nation towards its Vision 2020. However there is no established profile of successful Malaysian entrepreneurs that shows relationship to their decision making styles. This study was motivated by the literature review which exposed the gaps that: there is an absence of any attempt to empirically investigate the role of personal profiles variables which include culture, personality, self-efficacy and risk propensity, in particular as predictors of the decision –making styles among entrepreneurs; there is absence of combining the factors of entrepreneurs’ culture, personality factors, self-efficacy and risk propensity as the possible determining factors of entrepreneurs’ profile; and that no study was found to relate the entrepreneurs. 2013 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3896/ http://vlib.mmu.edu.my/diglib/login/dlusr/login.php phd doctoral Multimedia University Graduate School of Management
institution Multimedia University
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topic HB Economic theory
Demography
spellingShingle HB Economic theory
Demography
Mohd Fauzi, Shaffie
Profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: An exploration in the Malaysian ICT sector
description Entrepreneurship development is one of the strategic focuses of the Malaysian government in building the nation towards its Vision 2020. However there is no established profile of successful Malaysian entrepreneurs that shows relationship to their decision making styles. This study was motivated by the literature review which exposed the gaps that: there is an absence of any attempt to empirically investigate the role of personal profiles variables which include culture, personality, self-efficacy and risk propensity, in particular as predictors of the decision –making styles among entrepreneurs; there is absence of combining the factors of entrepreneurs’ culture, personality factors, self-efficacy and risk propensity as the possible determining factors of entrepreneurs’ profile; and that no study was found to relate the entrepreneurs.
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qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author Mohd Fauzi, Shaffie
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title Profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: An exploration in the Malaysian ICT sector
title_short Profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: An exploration in the Malaysian ICT sector
title_full Profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: An exploration in the Malaysian ICT sector
title_fullStr Profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: An exploration in the Malaysian ICT sector
title_full_unstemmed Profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: An exploration in the Malaysian ICT sector
title_sort profiles of entrepreneurs and their decision making styles: an exploration in the malaysian ict sector
granting_institution Multimedia University
granting_department Graduate School of Management
publishDate 2013
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