Abstract-Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) is an important economic entity in most country including Malaysia. Statistic from SME Corporation Malaysia shows that currently, there are 645, 136 SMEs and they contribute 32.7% of Malaysia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the forecast will be 41% by 2020. Statistics also have indicated that a large portion of the country's environmental problems are associated with the activities of SMEs and it is also believed that SMEs are primary source of environmental problems. Therefore, the participation of SMEs in adopting environmental friendly innovations is crucial in the effort to reduce environmental problems. Past literature have shown that technological determinants have established a stable influence in adoption of environmental innovations researches. However, past researchers have ignored the influence of organizational determinants in influencing adoption of environmental innovations. Thus, this study investigated the organizational determinants such as top management support and quality of human resources in influencing Malaysian SMEs to adopt one of the environmental innovations which is green productions. Data for this study were collected through questionnaire and analyzed by using SPSS. All organizational determinants for this study showed a significant influence on green production adoption. Since this study can be considered as one of the first attempts to empirically investigate organizational factors of green production adoption, the result helped scholars, government and government agencies to understand SMEs' behavior related to green production.
This qualitative study aims to contribute by exploring the existing theory on push and pull motivations within the entrepreneurial event model to see what is missing from the existing researche. This study uses semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with a total of six Malaysian seniorpreneurs for data collection. Content analysis method was used to extract their motivation from the qualitative data. The results reveal that in terms of theoretical, spiritual motivation is one of the motivations in driving seniorpreneurs to do business apart from push and pull motivations. The findings from this study may expand a research area of practical applications of spiritual motivation in the business environment which still empirically is not sufficiently covered.
This paper presents one of the crucial capitals owned by seniorpreneurs that built up over their working careers known as social capital. In this study, one of the possible components of social capital which influence seniorpreneurship is by having vast networking and linkages. Hence, this study identifying formal and informal networks within networking connectivity are essentials to strong and sustainable seniorpreneurship activity. It can be done by incorporating formal and informal networking connectivity model in order to strengthening their social capital in doing seniorpreneurship. The research employed systematic analysis from literature searched from electronic databases, hand pick, and other relevant works, summarize information gathered and finally interpreted the information. In the present paper the component of networking is investigated from entrepreneurial perspective in the field of entrepreneurship since efforts to review the networking connectivity for seniorpreneurs are scarce. Thus, the component of network needed in doing seniorpreneurship are rooted in entrepreneurial literature known as formal and informal networks. Thus, this result enriches previous literature about seniorpreneurs and their vast networking and linkages.
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