An Exploratory Study of Strategic Planning Behaviour in SMEs in Singapore/Malaysia Context

Strategic planning literature is extensive but how small and medium sized firms (SMEs) behave in response to environmental changes and how they incorporate such changes in their medium to long term plan has been insufficiently studied, in the writers’ view, especially in Singapore/Malaysia context....

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Main Authors: Ghosh, B. C., LOW, Aik Meng, TAN, Teck Meng, Chan, Chee Onn
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soa_research-15172010-09-22T09:36:03Z An Exploratory Study of Strategic Planning Behaviour in SMEs in Singapore/Malaysia Context Ghosh, B. C. LOW, Aik Meng TAN, Teck Meng Chan, Chee Onn Strategic planning literature is extensive but how small and medium sized firms (SMEs) behave in response to environmental changes and how they incorporate such changes in their medium to long term plan has been insufficiently studied, in the writers’ view, especially in Singapore/Malaysia context. This research is dedicated towards finding a framework for such analysis and testing such framework in 15 local/regional companies. After an extensive literature review from sources which are both international and local, a fairly lengthy questionnaire was developed. As stated, 15 companies’ chief executives (or in their absence, someone equivalent) were interviewed and at the end of each interview a set of structured questions were asked to be filled in. The whole interview process itself took more than a month. The results have been analysed and highlighted. One main finding is that SMEs continue to be family-centred in a local/regional context especially. Among other findings were the process of information gathering which was chiefly informal, the dominance of CEO-centred management, opportunity-seeking and risk-taking in identifying strategies and finally, the role of the spouse-support. This research is multi-faced and deserves to be further explored. Herein lies its limitation as well as its promise. A research of this nature cannot claim to be fully conclusive and hence its natural incompleteness indicates further research continuation. 1992-06-01T07:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/518 Research Collection School Of Accountancy eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Accounting Asian Studies Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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language English
topic Accounting
Asian Studies
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
spellingShingle Accounting
Asian Studies
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
Ghosh, B. C.
LOW, Aik Meng
TAN, Teck Meng
Chan, Chee Onn
An Exploratory Study of Strategic Planning Behaviour in SMEs in Singapore/Malaysia Context
description Strategic planning literature is extensive but how small and medium sized firms (SMEs) behave in response to environmental changes and how they incorporate such changes in their medium to long term plan has been insufficiently studied, in the writers’ view, especially in Singapore/Malaysia context. This research is dedicated towards finding a framework for such analysis and testing such framework in 15 local/regional companies. After an extensive literature review from sources which are both international and local, a fairly lengthy questionnaire was developed. As stated, 15 companies’ chief executives (or in their absence, someone equivalent) were interviewed and at the end of each interview a set of structured questions were asked to be filled in. The whole interview process itself took more than a month. The results have been analysed and highlighted. One main finding is that SMEs continue to be family-centred in a local/regional context especially. Among other findings were the process of information gathering which was chiefly informal, the dominance of CEO-centred management, opportunity-seeking and risk-taking in identifying strategies and finally, the role of the spouse-support. This research is multi-faced and deserves to be further explored. Herein lies its limitation as well as its promise. A research of this nature cannot claim to be fully conclusive and hence its natural incompleteness indicates further research continuation.
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author Ghosh, B. C.
LOW, Aik Meng
TAN, Teck Meng
Chan, Chee Onn
author_facet Ghosh, B. C.
LOW, Aik Meng
TAN, Teck Meng
Chan, Chee Onn
author_sort Ghosh, B. C.
title An Exploratory Study of Strategic Planning Behaviour in SMEs in Singapore/Malaysia Context
title_short An Exploratory Study of Strategic Planning Behaviour in SMEs in Singapore/Malaysia Context
title_full An Exploratory Study of Strategic Planning Behaviour in SMEs in Singapore/Malaysia Context
title_fullStr An Exploratory Study of Strategic Planning Behaviour in SMEs in Singapore/Malaysia Context
title_full_unstemmed An Exploratory Study of Strategic Planning Behaviour in SMEs in Singapore/Malaysia Context
title_sort exploratory study of strategic planning behaviour in smes in singapore/malaysia context
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 1992
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/518
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