Entrepreneurial Orientation Among Malaysian Indian Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Some Preliminary Findings

• Main Authors: Perumal, Selvan, Jaganathan, Mathivannan, Rahim, Othman, Zolkafli, Hussin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/23388/1/paper_56.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/23388/; http://www.ijiras.com

Entrepreneurial orientation of ethnic minority small businesses has prompted thus study to explore entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of Malaysian Indian ethnic entrepreneurs. This paper, reveals an overview of profile of Malaysian Indian ethnic entrepreneurs’ and the level of entrepreneurial orientation. The paper reports and analyses the findings of 201 questionnaires which were collected from selected areas in Malaysia such as Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Perak, Penang and Kedah. The paper illustrates an overview entrepreneurial profile among Malaysian Indian ethnic entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the result also shows that the is no gender difference in term of entrepreneurial orientation level among Malaysian Indian ethnic entrepreneurs. Discussion and implication of this study introduced in the last section on this paper.