Hubungan Faktor-Faktor Budaya Terhadap Kejayaan Kerjaya Keusahawanan: Kajian Kesan Pencelah Kompetensi Keusahawanan di Sumatera Barat
This study focuses on the cultural factors that develop entrepreneurship in the Minangkabau society, one of Indonesia sub-ethnics that are efficient and actively involved in business. The objectives of this study are firstly, to determine the role of cultural factors including solidarity, progressiv...
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| Format: | Thesis |
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2012
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| Online Access: | https://etd.uum.edu.my/3510/1/s90385.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/3510/8/s90385.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/3510/ |
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| Institution: | Universiti Utara Malaysia |
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| Summary: | This study focuses on the cultural factors that develop entrepreneurship in the Minangkabau society, one of Indonesia sub-ethnics that are efficient and actively involved in business. The objectives of this study are firstly, to determine the role of cultural factors including solidarity, progressive and expressive in explaining the creation of entrepreneurial career success. Secondly, to identify the role of cultural factors in explaining entrepreneurial competencies. Thirdly, to measure the relationship between entrepreneurship competencies and entrepreneurial career success, and finally, to examine the extent to which entrepreneurship competencies becomes a mediating factor in the relationship between the cultural factors and entrepreneurial career success. The research framework of this study is built upon Scott's Istitutional Theory. Three pillars of culture taken from Sorokin's Theory of Cultural Change. Mail questionnaire was used and the analysis began with a descriptive exploration, followed by regression analysis with ten hypotheses that have been tested. Data were collected from 359 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), that involved in clothing and food business located in Kabupaten Agam, West Sumatera, Indonesia. The results showed that cultural factors including solidarity, progressive, and expresive significantly affect entrepreneurship success. In addition, competencies significantly affect the entrepreneurial career success and become a mediating factor in the relationship between cultural factors and entrepreneurial career success. It is expected that traditional rituals in a solidarity culture, apprenticeship and migratory behavior are implicit within the the progressive cultural elements with customs and religion form the basis of expressive culture that have an impact on the development of entrepreneurial competencies and the achievement of their entrepreneurial career success. This study contributes significantly to the knowledge of entrepreneurship at large, wherein it explains that culture plays an important role in building and promoting competencies of society toward development of entrepreneurship in the Minangkabau society. |
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