Micro-Entrepreneur: Motivations, Challenges and Success Factors

Micro-enterprise plays an important role in contributing toward a stable and sustainable social and economic community environment. A core of small enterprise, particularly micro-enterprise (five or fewer employees), is needed to build and maintain the sustainability of social cultural, environment...

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Main Author:	Kalimah, Shahidan
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng
Published:	2011
Subjects:	HB615-715 Entrepreneurship Risk and uncertainty Property
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description	Micro-enterprise plays an important role in contributing toward a stable and sustainable social and economic community environment. A core of small enterprise, particularly micro-enterprise (five or fewer employees), is needed to build and maintain the sustainability of social cultural, environment and economic development of communities. The purpose of this study is to examine the motivations, challenges and key success factors for micro-entrepreneur in Kedah and Perlis. The micro-entrepreneur reveals that they are motivated to increase their income at the time they entering their business. Manage the business well and customer services as the key of success factors in their business. More than that, scarcity of financial resources in their business is a challenge to them.
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title	Micro-Entrepreneur: Motivations, Challenges and Success Factors
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spelling	my-uum-etd.29002016-04-19T01:14:30Z Micro-Entrepreneur: Motivations, Challenges and Success Factors 2011 Kalimah, Shahidan Shafie, Shahril Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property Micro-enterprise plays an important role in contributing toward a stable and sustainable social and economic community environment. A core of small enterprise, particularly micro-enterprise (five or fewer employees), is needed to build and maintain the sustainability of social cultural, environment and economic development of communities. The purpose of this study is to examine the motivations, challenges and key success factors for micro-entrepreneur in Kedah and Perlis. The micro-entrepreneur reveals that they are motivated to increase their income at the time they entering their business. Manage the business well and customer services as the key of success factors in their business. More than that, scarcity of financial resources in their business is a challenge to them. 2011 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/2900/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/2900/1/Kalimah_shahidan.pdf application/pdf eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/2900/2/1.Kalimah_shahidan.pdf application/pdf eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Abu Bakar, J., Mad, C. A. & Abdul Latif, R. (2006). Liberalization and globalization: a case of Naza and a lesson to SME. Proceedings of Persidangan Kebangsaan IKS 2006, Kuala Lumpur: Universiti Utara Malaysia. Ahmed, S.M., Adams, A.M., Chowdhury, M. and Bhuiya, A. (2000), “Gender, socioeconomic development and health-seeking behaviour in Bangladesh”, Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 51, pp. 361-71. AIM (Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia) (1989), Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia Annual Report 1989, Penang Jutaprint. Amin, S., Rai, A.S. and Ropa, G. (2003), “Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? 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