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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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://etd.uum.edu.my/4676/ |
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| Summary: | 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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