The effect of entrepreneurial leadership towards organizational performance

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Rahim, Hardy Loh, Zainal Abidin, Zanariah, Mohtar, Shahimi, Ramli, Azahari
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: International Academic Research Journal 2015
• الموضوعات: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://repo.uum.edu.my/16126/1/36.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/16126/; http://www.iarjournal.com/iar-journal/iar-journal-of-business-and-technology/

The business context has seen rising competition for critical resources and numerous scholars have suggested that in the current complex and volatile environments, it is obvious that the escalating ineffectiveness of more traditional approaches to strategy necessitates an entrepreneurial approach. Many has suggested a more entrepreneurial approach such as entrepreneurial leadership.As SMEs are deemed as the backbone of the nation‘s economy, it is essential to understand how entrepreneurial leadership could affect the organizational performance.Thus, this study examines the relationship of entrepreneurial leadership and organizational performance.This research employs quantitative analysis with 391 respondents participated in this study by implementing the systematic random sampling technique from a total of 645,136 SME owners in Malaysia. The result shows that entrepreneurial leadership has positive effect towards organizational performance.