Factors influencing women entrepreneurs business success of SMEs in Malaysia

Factors influencing women entrepreneurs business success of SMEs in Malaysia

Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) plays an important role in the economic development of the country. There are an increasing number of women entrepreneurs involve in this sector nowadays. Hence, this paper presents findings of a research study design to investigate the factors that influence women...

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Factors influencing women entrepreneurs business success of SMEs in Malaysia
description Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) plays an important role in the economic development of the country. There are an increasing number of women entrepreneurs involve in this sector nowadays. Hence, this paper presents findings of a research study design to investigate the factors that influence women entrepreneurs’ business success of SMEs in Malaysia. This research focus on six variables that contribute to the business success namely; financial capital, motivation and goal, social networking, government support, improvisation and adoption of information and communication technology. Questionnaire was used as a method of data collection in this research and has been distributed to 150 women entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Multiple Regression analysis was used to analyze the research hypothesis. Multiple Regression analysis showed that collectively all factors have positive influence on women business success. However, if it indicates individually, motivation and goal and government support factors have no significance influence to women business success. The findings of this study could contribute both theorists and managerial practitioners
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spelling my-uum-etd.46762021-03-18T00:22:03Z Factors influencing women entrepreneurs business success of SMEs in Malaysia 2015 Abidah, Abdul Bari Ahmad Arshad, Darwina Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) plays an important role in the economic development of the country. There are an increasing number of women entrepreneurs involve in this sector nowadays. Hence, this paper presents findings of a research study design to investigate the factors that influence women entrepreneurs’ business success of SMEs in Malaysia. This research focus on six variables that contribute to the business success namely; financial capital, motivation and goal, social networking, government support, improvisation and adoption of information and communication technology. Questionnaire was used as a method of data collection in this research and has been distributed to 150 women entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Multiple Regression analysis was used to analyze the research hypothesis. Multiple Regression analysis showed that collectively all factors have positive influence on women business success. However, if it indicates individually, motivation and goal and government support factors have no significance influence to women business success. The findings of this study could contribute both theorists and managerial practitioners 2015 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/4676/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/4676/1/s815727.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/4676/2/s815727_abstract.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Abdul, M. A., Omar, N. H., & Yee, L. K. (2012). Critical success factors of entrepreneurs in business. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 7(1), 34–45. Allen, E. Langowitz, N., & Minniti, M. (2007). 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