Download or read book Factors Determing the Success of SMEs in Malaysia A Qualitative Study written by Yusuf Balarabe Abdullahi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 3.8, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, language: English, abstract: This report will helps identify gaps that this study is aiming to bridge, which will also help guide the entire paper. It is becoming increasingly difficult to overlook the importance of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in the economic and social development of a country. In view of their identified importance, this study aims to develop a better understanding of the factors that influence success and performance in small and medium enterprises in Malaysia, as perceived by owners and/or managers. The research framework, which was derived from a systematic literature review, was carefully analyzed, observed and investigated using a two (2) stage design, which incorporated both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The justification behind the two (2) stage methodology was mainly to avoid common method bias and, furthermore, seek to clarify findings arising from the survey by providing individual insights. Approaches were adopted in succession with the findings from the quantitative phase which in turn informs the qualitative phase. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have an important role to play in the development of a country. A strong SME sector contributes highly to the economy, contributing to the gross domestic product, by reducing the level of unemployment, reduction in poverty levels and promotion of entrepreneurship activity. Therefore, the success of this sector determines economic status of the economy of Malaysia which is dependent on a number of factors.
Download or read book Influential Financial Factors of Employee Engagement Outcomes Within SMEs Business in Malaysia written by Safiah Rashid and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Success Stories of Malaysian SMEs in Promoting and Penetrating Global Markets Through Business Competitiveness Strategies written by Khoo Cheok Sin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, the Government of Malaysia has become increasing aware of the significant contribution of small medium enterprises (SMEs) to the national economy. A number of Government programmes and incentives were offered to the SMEs in the past years but with limited impact. This lecture touches on the nature and contribution of the Malaysian SMEs in the first five years of the 21st century. An attempt was made to identify the success factors and weaknesses of SMEs from official reports of Government agencies, and findings of research studies on the subject. Recognising the challenges posed by globalisation and trade liberalisation on the Malaysian SMEs, the Government revamped its policies, programmes, incentives, and approaches which are currently implemented in the Ninth Malaysian Plan and the Third Industrial Master Plan. The objective is to enhance the SMEs' capacity and capabilities through continuous product development, knowledge and technology acquisition to empower them to compete with other global players offering high quality products and services at competitive prices.
Download or read book Factors Influencing Women Entrepreneurs Business Success of SMEs in Malaysia written by Abidah Abdul Bari and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SMALL BUSINESS written by Aidin Salamzadeh and published by Global edducation center. This book was released on 2022-07-10 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Small Business was held hybrid in close collaboration with the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Lab (GECC) in London (UK). Several distinguished guest speakers and well-known scholars contributed to this event. Following a two-day programme, the conference included a one-day face-to-face event for students and another day dedicated to an online event with three thought-provoking sessions facilitated by Professor Rami Al-Hadeethi, Professor Kursat Demiryurek and Professor Aidin Salamzadeh. Professor Rami Al-Hadeethi and Professor Yashar Salamzadeh also held two plenary sessions. Over 150 individuals from various countries, including the UK, Iran, Japan, Kuwait, Russia, Serbia, and Turkey, contributed to this event. Interestingly, presentations were related to entrepreneurship and business in various business contexts, and many followed interdisciplinary approaches. As the event’s organizers, we would like to thank all those who contributed to the quality of this international conference, including participants, conference chairs, scientific committees, reviewers, technical team members and our partners from the University of Tehran (Iran), Ondokuz Mayis University (Turkey), GECC (UK), European Union Project Hub (Japan), and Eastern Black Sea Project Regional Development Administration (Turkey). Notably, this book is divided into two major parts: (i) abstracts and (ii) selected papers. The scientific committee of the conference nominated the selected papers. We hope to meet you at the next events.
Download or read book Research Anthology on Small Business Strategies for Success and Survival written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running a small business provides opportunity for greater success, increased growth, and potentially the chance to move to the global business arena, yet also much more risk. Small businesses not only have less employment, but also less annual revenue than a regular-sized business. With the growth of large corporations and chain businesses, it has become harder to maintain the survival of a small business. The COVID-19 pandemic has also brought more pressure onto the already unsteady survival of small businesses, due to forced closures, decreased agility, fewer technological innovations, and smaller customer bases. The Research Anthology on Small Business Strategies for Success and Survival offers current strategies for small businesses that can be utilized in order to maintain equal footing during challenging times. With the proper strategies available to small business owners, small businesses could not only survive, but also excel despite the environment that surrounds them. Covering topics including decision management, new supportive technologies, sustainable development, and micro-financing, this text is ideal for small business owners, entrepreneurs, startup companies, family-owned and operated businesses, restaurateurs, local retailers, managers, executives, academicians, researchers, and students.
Download or read book A Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness written by Fred Edward Fiedler and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essentials of Business Research Methods written by Joe F. Hair Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, managers must make decisions based on almost unlimited information. How can they navigate and organize this vast amount of data? Essentials of Business Research Methods provides research techniques for people who aren't data analysts. The authors offer a straightforward, hands-on approach to the vital managerial process of gathering and using data to make clear business decisions. They include critical topics, such as the increasing role of online research, ethical issues, data mining, customer relationship management, and how to conduct information-gathering activities more effectively in a rapidly changing business environment. This is the only text that includes a chapter on qualitative data analysis, and the coverage of quantitative data analysis is more extensive, and much easier to understand than in other texts. The book features a realistic continuing case throughout that enables students to see how business research information is used in the real world. It includes applied research examples in all chapters, as well as ethical dilemma mini cases, and exercises.
Download or read book Project Managers Leadership Styles in Information Technology Sector of Pakistan written by Muhammad Khalique Ahmad and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these competitive and turbulent times, project organisations face severe challenges. Despite the advancement of project management tools and techniques, the rate of project failure exceeds that of success. Regardless of calls for further empirical studies on the role of project leadership, researchers struggle to find the best leadership styles for project success. New digital transformation phenomena have forced organisations to offer more autonomy and decision-making authority to those at lower hierarchical levels. In this scenario, top management support plays a facilitator role. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, no past studies have examined these critical project success factors simultaneously in a project environment. Embedded in the theories of contingency, goal-setting, and social cognition, this study raised the hypothesis that project managers’ leadership styles impact project success via the mediation of goal clarity, empowerment, and self-leadership as well as the moderation of top management support. Data was collected by administering a cross-sectional survey to 289 project organisations in the IT sector. The results demonstrated that project managers' transactional leadership style does not impact project success because goal clarity has an insignificant association with project success. However, the transformational leadership style showed a positive impact on project success because empowerment significantly and positively relates to project success. The project manager's empowering leadership style was also found to positively influence project success through followers’ self-leadership. Additionally, top management support revealed a significant moderating role by strengthening the relationship between empowerment and project success. This study successfully fills theoretical gaps by introducing a novel moderated mediation model. The findings also offer useful insights to practitioners by revealing that project managers’ transformational leadership and empowering leadership are needed to enhance and encourage employee empowerment and self-leadership, and ultimately secure project success.
Download or read book Critical Success Factors for SMEs in Malaysia written by Mohd. Khairuddin Hashim and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antecedents of Financial Practice for the Success of Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs written by S.M. Ferdous Azam and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world metaphorically has turned flat for the onslaught of globalization. While it has blurred the geographical divides, it has as well, as its corollary, spawned fierce competition among the enterprises in the marketplace. The competitive trade atmosphere has furnished the contemporary business industry intensely over its rivals and its ability to cope with multiple challenges to be successful, especially in terms of financial means. Although the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered as the backbone of economic growth of a country, however SMEs in Malaysia are noted with dismay due to unexpected business failures. Despite the fact that many scholarly works have been conducted in Malaysia, nevertheless, the strong influence of the antecedents of financial practice such as Financial Knowledge (FK) and Financial Behaviour (FB) toward Financial Practice (FP) as well as Business Success (BS) are yet to be realized pertinently. For that reason, the current study emphasizes a variety of detailed theoretical perspectives as well as the empirical foundations for achieving the research objectives. In fact, these theoretical and empirical platforms make the research feasible in the areas of Financial Knowledge (FK), Financial Behaviour (FB), Financial Practice (FP) and Business Success (BS) of Malaysian SMEs. The research method of this study is 'survey method' and the unit of analysis is the individual respondent consisting business owners and managers from various SMEs in Selangor and the greater Kuala Lumpur region. Although a suitable sample of 63 business owners and managers of different SMEs were selected for the pilot study, later on, a sample of 302 data was considered as the final sample size for the current study. Since this is a quantitative research, so the primary empirical findings are reported using SPSS (Version 18.0), and then detailed out various investigations using AMOS (Version 16.0) software for executing the suitable Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analyses. Prior to conducting SEM, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) is performed to scrutinize the underlying dimensions of Financial Knowledge (FK), Financial Behaviour (FB), Financial Practice (FP) and Business Success (BS). Subsequently, the reliability analysis is checked via Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the four extracted factors for the purpose of ensuring the internal consistency. The results indicate that, although Financial Knowledge (FK) is positively related to the Financial Practice (FP) in Malaysian SMEs, but it is not directly related to the Business Success (BS). A similar phenomenon is observed in the Financial Behaviour (FB), which is positively related to the Financial Practice (FP) but not to the Business Success (BS) for the SMEs in Malaysia. Apart from these, the Financial Practice (FP) is found assertively allied to the Business Success (BS) while Financial Practice (FP) plays the mediating roles in the Financial Knowledge (FK) and Financial Behaviour (FB) toward Business Success (BS) in Malaysia. However, a reciprocal relationship is observed justifiably between Financial Knowledge (FK) and Financial Behaviour (FB). With these findings, the current study can fulfill the research objectives assembled in the initial chapter. Finally, this research will help to identify the requirements and solutions for finding out the policy to strengthen the enterprise and maximize the productivity and sustainable development.
Download or read book Employee Engagement written by Safiah Rashid and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Success Factors in Getting Financial Support for SMEs in Malaysia written by Mohd. Amy Azhar Mohd. Harif and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Managing Information Systems in Developing Economies written by Boateng, Richard and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology provides accessibility otherwise unavailable to the people who can benefit from it the most. As new digital tools become less expensive and more widely available, research and real-world cases that examine the union between emergent countries and information systems are essential in determining the next steps for these nations. The Handbook of Research on Managing Information Systems in Developing Economies is a pivotal reference source that explores the effects of technological data handling within developing economies. Covering a broad range of topics such as emerging digital technologies, socio-economic development, and technology startups, this book is ideally designed for software programmers, policymakers, practitioners, educators, academicians, students, and researchers.
Download or read book Indian Smes And Start ups Growth Through Innovation And Leadership written by Leo-paul Dana and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, India has emerged as the third largest start-up ecosystem in the world, earning itself the reputation of being the emerging land for delivering unicorns. It has become one of the most attractive regions in the world for initiating and scaling up new business ideas. Many venture capitalists have invested in India's start-up ecosystem, and the government has also launched a variety of schemes to promote this growth. Indian organisations have become more competitive, making their global presence felt and expanding their reach into new industries and sectors.What factors have been pivotal for the growth of Indian start-ups? How did the Indian ecosystem evolve to fuel this growth? Is the role of leadership in start-ups more crucial than in other organisations?This book, through its diverse range of chapters, not only provides answers to the above questions, but also makes sincere efforts to highlight the innovative potential that start-ups carry and the leadership that is required to sail them through global competition. The book also provides an insight on the race of unicorns and how Indian start-ups have been extremely successful in bagging this coveted title. This edited book is a must-read for budding entrepreneurs and researchers who aim to understand and conduct research on Indian start-ups and their ecosystem support.
Download or read book Government Policy and Critical Success Factors of Small Businesses in Singapore written by Harold Siow Song Teng and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the main economic players responsible for Singapore’s economic success is its small and medium-sized enterprises or SMEs. Their overall success has helped propel the country and its people forward. From economic policies to politics, Singapore is a planned and regulated economy. Singapore’s economic success story is actually the result of a form of capitalism carefully calibrated and controlled by the government. An important element or aspect of good critical success factors (CSFs) emerges from the role being played by the government. The existence of good government or public policies that are pro-business is vital for the success of firms. Despite the fact that government policies and CSFs are widely studied in areas around the world including in Singapore, there is no comprehensive prediction model available to test if firms have potential to be successful or are more prone to failures. Much research investigates the non-financial factors contributing to success versus failure of small firms, but empirical tests of the predictability of these factors are less common. This book, which is primarily quantitative/ positivist in nature will attempt to fill this gap.
Download or read book The Success Factors in Getting Business Financing for SMEs in Malaysia written by Siti Khadijah binti Zali and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
