Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia

Despite the increase in the number of woman entrepreneurs in Malaysia, the focus on entrepreneurial rural women remains largely under-researched. In particular, there is a dearth of studies in the field of rural women’s entrepreneurship regarding how human capital and social capital factors influenc...

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Main Author:	Azlan, Muhammad Ammar
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2019
Subjects:	HB615-715 Entrepreneurship Risk and uncertainty Property
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spelling	my-mmu-ep.77112020-09-16T22:51:21Z Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia 2019-04 Azlan, Muhammad Ammar HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property Despite the increase in the number of woman entrepreneurs in Malaysia, the focus on entrepreneurial rural women remains largely under-researched. In particular, there is a dearth of studies in the field of rural women’s entrepreneurship regarding how human capital and social capital factors influence the success of these entrepreneurs. This knowledge gap thus contributes to a lack of developmental programs aimed at improving the human capital and social capital of these entrepreneurs. The present study aims to contribute towards filling this gap in knowledge and thus enable such programs to be developed and implemented. Rural women entrepreneurs from around Malaysia were selected using purposive sampling, and quantitative methods were used to obtain data from the study participants. The results obtained answer the following research questions: what is the influential role of (1) knowledge, (2) experience, (3) skills, (4) strong-tie relationships and (5) weak-tie relationships in the entrepreneurial success of rural women in Malaysia? The study used quantitative methods and PLS-SEM was used to analyse the data. 2019-04 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/7711/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/library2/diglib/mmuetd/ masters Multimedia University Faculty of Management
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spellingShingle	HB615-715 Entrepreneurship Risk and uncertainty Property Azlan, Muhammad Ammar Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia
description	Despite the increase in the number of woman entrepreneurs in Malaysia, the focus on entrepreneurial rural women remains largely under-researched. In particular, there is a dearth of studies in the field of rural women’s entrepreneurship regarding how human capital and social capital factors influence the success of these entrepreneurs. This knowledge gap thus contributes to a lack of developmental programs aimed at improving the human capital and social capital of these entrepreneurs. The present study aims to contribute towards filling this gap in knowledge and thus enable such programs to be developed and implemented. Rural women entrepreneurs from around Malaysia were selected using purposive sampling, and quantitative methods were used to obtain data from the study participants. The results obtained answer the following research questions: what is the influential role of (1) knowledge, (2) experience, (3) skills, (4) strong-tie relationships and (5) weak-tie relationships in the entrepreneurial success of rural women in Malaysia? The study used quantitative methods and PLS-SEM was used to analyse the data.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Azlan, Muhammad Ammar
author_facet	Azlan, Muhammad Ammar
author_sort	Azlan, Muhammad Ammar
title	Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia
title_short	Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia
title_full	Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia
title_sort	examination of the human and social capital factors towards the success of rural women entrepreneurs in malaysia
granting_institution	Multimedia University
granting_department	Faculty of Management
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Examination of The Human and Social Capital Factors Towards The Success of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia

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