Access to credit, training, social capital and business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis

Women in Malaysia play an important role in contributing to the country’s economic development in business. However, they are not only contribute in economic growth but also able create their own businesses and job opportunities to the society instead of guarantees their brighter future with the sup...

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Main Author:	Shazwani, Othman
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng eng
Published:	2019
Subjects:	HB615-715 Entrepreneurship Risk and uncertainty Property
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/1/s823248_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/2/s823248_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/3/s823248_references.docx
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spelling	my-uum-etd.91592022-04-13T02:56:57Z Access to credit, training, social capital and business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis 2019 Shazwani, Othman Mustapa, Azrain Nasyrah School of Business Management School of Business Management HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property Women in Malaysia play an important role in contributing to the country’s economic development in business. However, they are not only contribute in economic growth but also able create their own businesses and job opportunities to the society instead of guarantees their brighter future with the support and business opportunities of certain parties. This study aimed to explore business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis. Accordingly, researcher has put forward three variables namely access to credit, training and social capital as variables that influenced business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis. Data was collected using the questionnaire distributed to 217 women entrepreneurs under Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) but 113 usable data were gathered. This survey was analyzed via Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0. The multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine the influence of three variables towards business performance of women entrepreneurs. The finding showed that social capital factor has positive influence on women entrepreneur business performance. However, it indicated access to credit and training factors have no significance influence to the women entrepreneurs business performance. The study further contributes to the existing body of knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship where similar studies are generally scarce. Finally, study limitations and suggestions for the women entrepreneurs and future research are provided and discussed. 2019 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/1/s823248_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/2/s823248_02.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/3/s823248_references.docx text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
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advisor	Mustapa, Azrain Nasyrah
topic	HB615-715 Entrepreneurship Risk and uncertainty Property
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description	Women in Malaysia play an important role in contributing to the country’s economic development in business. However, they are not only contribute in economic growth but also able create their own businesses and job opportunities to the society instead of guarantees their brighter future with the support and business opportunities of certain parties. This study aimed to explore business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis. Accordingly, researcher has put forward three variables namely access to credit, training and social capital as variables that influenced business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis. Data was collected using the questionnaire distributed to 217 women entrepreneurs under Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) but 113 usable data were gathered. This survey was analyzed via Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0. The multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine the influence of three variables towards business performance of women entrepreneurs. The finding showed that social capital factor has positive influence on women entrepreneur business performance. However, it indicated access to credit and training factors have no significance influence to the women entrepreneurs business performance. The study further contributes to the existing body of knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship where similar studies are generally scarce. Finally, study limitations and suggestions for the women entrepreneurs and future research are provided and discussed.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Shazwani, Othman
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title	Access to credit, training, social capital and business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis
title_short	Access to credit, training, social capital and business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis
title_full	Access to credit, training, social capital and business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis
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title_full_unstemmed	Access to credit, training, social capital and business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis
title_sort	access to credit, training, social capital and business performance of women entrepreneurs in perlis
granting_institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
granting_department	School of Business Management
publishDate	2019
url	https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/1/s823248_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/2/s823248_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9159/3/s823248_references.docx
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Access to credit, training, social capital and business performance of women entrepreneurs in Perlis

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