Discovering Small Business Start up Motives, Success Factors and Barriers: A Gender Analysis

Hazudin, Siti Fahazarina; Kader, Mohd Aidil Riduan Awang; Tarmuji, Nor Habibah; Ishak, Maisarah; Ali, Roslina

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(15)01218-6

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“…Those factors were followed by individual factors, such as entrepreneur age, skills and business skills, use of professional advisors and personal financial needs were the most critical individual factors that affect the success of small business. Similar findings were echoed by Chawla et al (2010), Chong (2012), Ng and Kee (2012), Nikolić et al (2015), Migdadi (2009), Pletnev and Barkhatov (2016), Hazudin et al (2015), Rose et al (2006) and Lampadarios et al (2017) with their emphasis on entrepreneurial characteristics as CSFs of business success. Capital availability in terms of financial capital, human capital and social capital ranked third as critical factors that have significant effects on small-sized enterprises success.…”

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confidence: 59%

Critical Success Factors of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Saudi Arabia: Insights from Sustainability Perspective

Al-Tit

Omri

Euchi

2019

Administrative Sciences

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: The aim of this study is to explore the critical success factors (CSFs) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia. A questionnaire was developed using 28 factors/indicators identified from the previous researches. From 500 respondents, a total of 347 questionnaires were returned. By conducting exploratory factors analysis, these indicators were categorized into six factors, namely: Individual factors, business characteristics, management factors, business support, capital availability and business environment. Using IBM SPSS and AMOS, the results indicated that business support was the most critical factor that significantly affects the success of SMEs in Saudi Arabia, followed by individual factors, capital availability, and management factors. They also indicated that business characteristics and business environment factors had no significant impacts on the success of these enterprises.

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Critical Success Factors of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Saudi Arabia: Insights from Sustainability Perspective

Al-Tit

Omri

Euchi

2019

Administrative Sciences

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“…The coefficient of CSR ce × Gender for Model 3 was −0.525, significant at the 0.05 level. The nonsignificant difference between male and female STE owners' CSR activities (see Table ) indicates that female owners are more likely to realize targets such as balancing their work and family lives and gaining greater recognition from local society (Hazudin et al, ; Chu et al, ) and that they receive more satisfaction by exercising their social responsibility at the community level (see Figure a). This empirically supported Hypothesis 2a, which predicted that gender would have a significant moderating effect, with a positive influence exerted by female owners.…”

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“…These interdependent self-construal and socially oriented merits encourage women to become involved in the community and actively pursue their social support goals. Female entrepreneurs are more likely than male entrepreneurs to start small businesses to balance their work and family lives (Hazudin, Kader, Tarmuji, Ishak, & Ali, 2015) or to become independent and gain recognition from the community (Chu, Kara, Zhu, & Gok, 2011). Men are more concerned with achieving wealth and improving their firms' financial performance (Chen & Elston, 2013).…”

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Community social responsibility and the performance of small tourism enterprises: Moderating effects of entrepreneurs' demographics

Wang

et al. 2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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This study investigated the two main dimensions of small tourism enterprises' (STEs') community social responsibility and their impact on firms' objective and subjective performance. It also explored the moderating effects of STE owners' demographics on the relationships between the two community social responsibility dimensions and firm performance. By the survey data from STEs in the historical towns in southwestern China, the empirical findings suggested that engaging in socially responsible behavior at the community level contributes to STEs' subjective performance; and the influence of community engagement on STEs' performance is moderated by the owners' demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, ethnicity, and birthplace.

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“…First, women entrepreneurs' technical expertise turned out to be an effective tool in leading IT businesses. Hazudin et al (2015) indicated that women entrepreneurs' knowledge and competencies play an important role in their business development. Second, their positive outlook (e.g., a sense of hope) was a key driving force to overcome business challenges and sustain business development, which is well-aligned with previous research on the positive impact of entrepreneurial resilience on business development (e.g., Korber & McNaughton, 2018).…”

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Business Startups and Development of South Korean Women Entrepreneurs in the IT Industry

Cho

Han

Park

et al. 2020

Advances in Developing Human Resources

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The Problem Research on South Korean women entrepreneurs in the information technology (IT) industry is limited, and thus learning how they start and develop their businesses will address a gap in the literature. In addition, as our previous study on women entrepreneurs in Korea encompassed all industries, we did not sufficiently capture how women entrepreneurs in the IT industry started and developed their businesses. We feel a strong need to conduct a follow-up study on three women entrepreneurs who (a) started an IT business to become independent; (b) have stayed in their businesses for approximately 20 years; and (c) became role models as women entrepreneurs in the industry. The Solution We conducted semi-structured interviews with three women entrepreneurs in the IT industry and analyzed each case on three themes: motivation, challenges, and success factors. Although each case has its distinctive features, we found that all cases had success factors in common: technical expertise, positive outlook, adherence to business principles, work centrality, and networking. Particularly, the three women entrepreneurs’ positive outlook was the key success factor that helped them overcome challenges they faced in business development. The Stakeholders Given the study findings on women entrepreneurs’ personal factors (e.g., positive outlook, technical expertise) and external factors (e.g., networking), human resource development (HRD) practitioners can develop leadership programs to share those success factors with aspiring women entrepreneurs in Korea and other countries so that they can develop their own competencies and strategies from early on.

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Discovering Small Business Start up Motives, Success Factors and Barriers: A Gender Analysis

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

Critical Success Factors of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Saudi Arabia: Insights from Sustainability Perspective

Critical Success Factors of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Saudi Arabia: Insights from Sustainability Perspective

Community social responsibility and the performance of small tourism enterprises: Moderating effects of entrepreneurs' demographics

Business Startups and Development of South Korean Women Entrepreneurs in the IT Industry

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