The environmental factors that influence success of women entrepreneurs : entrepreneurial intention as a mediator
– Entrepreneurship typically focuses on identifying opportunities in order to create values for customers, yielding ultimate profit for the founders and investors. It also being a decisive factor which to attain the competitiveness and dynamic character of today’s economic knowledge. However, the...
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Format: | Book Section |
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Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Business,UMK
2015
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Online Access: | http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8545/ |
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Institution: | Universiti Malaysia Kelantan |
Summary: | – Entrepreneurship typically focuses on identifying opportunities in order to create values for
customers, yielding ultimate profit for the founders and investors. It also being a decisive factor which to
attain the competitiveness and dynamic character of today’s economic knowledge. However, the
Malaysian economic growth and personal propensity shows that women entrepreneurs recently become
the most important pool of resources. Based on the Ninth Malaysia Plan it had been stated that there are
about half of women in total population, with the increasing of representation at the professional,
managerial and technical levels. Increasingly involvement of women entrepreneurs in other country is
not only acknowledges and encourages but also influence women entrepreneurs to involve in the business
and it has become another opportunity and platform for the women folks to earn an economic income
outside of their home based business. Therefore, several studies had identified various factors which
indicate the successful woman entrepreneurs based on their performance in business. This study also
however, intends to develop a new model that focus on environmental which could influences the
successful of women entrepreneurs. Moreover, it’s also highlights the potential role of entrepreneurial
intention as a mediator in developing a business and the growth of performance women entrepreneurs,
particularly in Malaysia environment. The model was developed by using other studies and previous
literatures which do not indicate the mediator which plays an important role of successful women
entrepreneurs. This research not only benefits the government and country but also appears an
opportunity that can and should be grabbed taken by women entrepreneurs in developing and expanding
business widely. |
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