Government Policy and Performance of Small and Medium Business Management

Eniola, Anthony Abiodun; Entebang, Harry

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v5-i2/1481

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“…Similarly, in SME owner-manager business development, a debt would be used. The proportion of debt-equity would therefore be suggestive of the owner-manager's select of bases of financing provision at a specific time period (Abouzeedan, 2010;Diagne and Zeller, 2001;Eniola and Entebang, 2015;Mac an Bhaird, 2010).…”

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SME Managers and Financial Literacy; Does Financial Literacy Really Matter?

Akhtar

Yan-ping

2018

JPAG

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The purpose of this study is to examine the level of small and medium (SMEs) business owners-managers' financial literacy and its effect on the firm's performance. The study applied random sample and structural equation modeling approaches in measuring the impact of SME firm owners-managers' level of financial literacy in the context of Pakistan. The findings reveal the complete influence of firm owners-manager's financial attitude, financial knowledge and financial awareness in adapting financial literacy to upsurge in firm performance. Results indicate that financial awareness and financial knowledge of SME managers are evidently not a precondition to SMEs performance, yet entrepreneur tactics in making decisions and association to financial attitude have a contrast with financial literacy. Findings would be valuable for the SME owners, investors and service providers.

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SME Managers and Financial Literacy; Does Financial Literacy Really Matter?

Akhtar

Yan-ping

2018

JPAG

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“…Nigeria today has the biggest economy in Africa and SMEs make up 99 per cent of all companies in Nigeria (Eniola & Entebang, 2015a;Eniola, Entebang, & Sakariyau, 2015). SMEs has performed an unparalleled role in coming to the Nigeria economic growth and assist as a training ground for entrepreneurs and a provider of solutions to address the challenges of unemployment in all consuming labors and promoting marketing growth.…”

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Entrepreneur-firm characteristics and financing sources

Eniola¹

2017

IJRSM

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The point of this study is to review the effect of entrepreneur-firm characteristics on the financing sources of small and medium enterprises (SME) in Nigeria. To review the effect of entrepreneur characteristics on financing decisions regarding debt and equity. In addition, the overview will extend the acknowledgment and the acumen of entrepreneur-firm managers.They can have an effect on via precious information to assist them in their preference manner with appreciate to their business enterprise's capital structure amid a period when entrepreneur financing bothers are progressively inspired in the Nigeria ambience.

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“…Local government makes policy for the development of regional superior potential to explore the potential of MSMEs by developing superior products through (One Village One Product -OVOP) as an effort to increase the value-added of local superior products in order to improve the welfare of the society. According to Eniola (2015), Government policy has an effect on performance improvement of MSMEs. Likewise, government policy has a major impact on the competitiveness of MSMEs.…”

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COMPETITIVENESS OF FOOD AGRO-INDUSTRIAL MSMEs: ROLE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT POLICY

Andreastika

Santoso

Deoranto

2017

JAM

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Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are the business Group that become important part in the development of the national economy, and also as strategic sector for the nation of Indonesia. The increasing of the number MSMEs is not accompanied by an increase the quality and competitiveness to face the competition from other MSMEs, many factor which influenced toward the increased of performance and competitiveness should come first, as well as reduce the problems that become obstacles the development MSMEs. The problems faced by MSMEs in Malang Regency including managerial aspect to managed business and government policies that have not fully give benefit for micro and macro business. The purpose of this research is to analyze influence of business management variables (X 1 ) and government policies (X 2 ) on the performance (Y 1 ) competitiveness (Y 2 ) food agro-industrial MSMEs in Malang. The research used Partial Least Square (PLS) method to analyzing the data. Respondents of this study are 30 MSMEs, who were taken using purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the variables of business management not significant effect on performance and significant effect on the competitiveness of MSMEs. Government policies have a significant effect on the performance of MSMEs and not significant effect on competitiveness. Performance of MSMEs has a significant effect on competitiveness. Variable business management provides the strongest direct influence on the competitiveness of MSMEs.

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Government Policy and Performance of Small and Medium Business Management

Cited by 97 publications

References 34 publications

SME Managers and Financial Literacy; Does Financial Literacy Really Matter?

SME Managers and Financial Literacy; Does Financial Literacy Really Matter?

Entrepreneur-firm characteristics and financing sources

COMPETITIVENESS OF FOOD AGRO-INDUSTRIAL MSMEs: ROLE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT POLICY

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