Malaysian women entrepreneurial characteristics, strategic orientation and firm performance: The moderator role of government support programs

Bahari, et al.

doi:10.21833/ijaas.2017.012.044

“…Further, the moderating role of government support has been studied by (Bahari, Yunus & Jabar, 2017) in context of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and SMEs success relationship and it confirmed the meaningful influence of government support. As the theoretical gap in previous researches related to entrepreneurs' competencies (EC) and SMEs financial success, this research intended to adapt the government support as a moderator.…”

Section: Moderating Effect Of Government Support On Financial Literacmentioning

confidence: 66%

The Conceptual Framework of SMEs Financial Success in Sultanate of Oman

Hilal

¹

,

Rahim

²

,

Iranmanesh

³

2020

JGI

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SMEs financial success contributes to the nation`s GDP and helps in jobs creation, while SMEs financial failure will lead to issues, such as low job creation and Non-Performing Loans. From the perspective of the Sultanate of Oman, the SMEs financial performance is one of the government major concerns due to its significance and implications on the future of the national economy. Thus, it is worthwhile to assess the SMEs financial literacy and entrepreneurs' competencies (EC) as enablers of SMEs financial performance betterment. However, review of the literature and the practical evidence available give the impression that each sub-dimensions of entrepreneur competencies (EC) does not affect identically on SMEs financial performance. Therefore, it has become important to understand the financial literacy and entrepreneur competencies (EC) sub-dimensions effect on SMEs financial performance so that their significance and importance can be identified. This study aims to provide empirical evidence about the effect of financial literacy and each sub-dimensions of entrepreneur competencies (EC) on SMEs financial performance in the Sultanate of Oman. Besides, this research tends to examine the role of firm resources availability and government support as moderators. Resource-Based View Theory (RBV) will be adopted to extend the existing literature on SMEs financial performance determinants from SMEs entrepreneurial perspective. As research novelty and theoretical contribution, this research study's the interactions of financial literacy and each sub-dimensions of entrepreneur competencies (EC) with firm resources availability and government support, as moderators. The convenience sampling method will be used with SMEs sample size of 200 and 300 questionnaires will be distributed to SMEs founders/owners in Sultanate of Oman. The structural equation modelling (SEM) through partial least square (PLS) approach will be used to test the study hypotheses. The present research findings are expected to broader the picture of entrepreneur competencies (EC) and SMEs performance researches by revealing the financial literacy and each sub-dimensions of entrepreneur competencies (EC) effect on SMEs financial performance. Further, it may confirm the moderating role of firm resources availability and government support on SMEs financial performance.

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“…, Lisboa et al (2016),Danso et al (2016),Bahari et al (2017),Ozaralli and Rivenburgh (2016),Mahmood et al (2017), Meroño-Cerdán et al (2018 andIsaga (2018). On the other hand, other personality traits such as need for achievement (Hypothesis 1) and propensity of risk taking (Hypothesis 3) were not shown to have a positive link with performance of SEPs by results (H1: b = -0.014, t = 0.179; H3: b = 0.060, t = 0.870).…”

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confidence: 85%

The Effect Of Personality Traits On The Performance Of Student Enterprises

Rahman¹,

Fadzline²,

Azlinna³

et al. 2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Besides, the government must provide non-financial support through seminars and training workshops for SMEs entrepreneurs' to mitigate the consequences of inadequate entrepreneur competencies (EC) and financial literacy. Bahari et al (2017) has studied the moderating role of government support on the relationship of entrepreneur orientation (EO) and SMEs business success in Malaysian context and has confirmed the moderating role of government support. Further, Shamsuddin et al (2017) confirmed that financial support, non-financial support and other business support from the government is positively related to SMEs business performance.…”

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confidence: 93%

The Conceptual Framework of SMEs Financial Success in Sultanate of Oman

Hilal

¹

,

Rahim

²

,

Iranmanesh

³

2020

JGI

1

0

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SMEs financial success contributes to the nation`s GDP and helps in jobs creation, while SMEs financial failure will lead to issues, such as low job creation and Non-Performing Loans. From the perspective of the Sultanate of Oman, the SMEs financial performance is one of the government major concerns due to its significance and implications on the future of the national economy. Thus, it is worthwhile to assess the SMEs financial literacy and entrepreneurs' competencies (EC) as enablers of SMEs financial performance betterment. However, review of the literature and the practical evidence available give the impression that each sub-dimensions of entrepreneur competencies (EC) does not affect identically on SMEs financial performance. Therefore, it has become important to understand the financial literacy and entrepreneur competencies (EC) sub-dimensions effect on SMEs financial performance so that their significance and importance can be identified. This study aims to provide empirical evidence about the effect of financial literacy and each sub-dimensions of entrepreneur competencies (EC) on SMEs financial performance in the Sultanate of Oman. Besides, this research tends to examine the role of firm resources availability and government support as moderators. Resource-Based View Theory (RBV) will be adopted to extend the existing literature on SMEs financial performance determinants from SMEs entrepreneurial perspective. As research novelty and theoretical contribution, this research study's the interactions of financial literacy and each sub-dimensions of entrepreneur competencies (EC) with firm resources availability and government support, as moderators. The convenience sampling method will be used with SMEs sample size of 200 and 300 questionnaires will be distributed to SMEs founders/owners in Sultanate of Oman. The structural equation modelling (SEM) through partial least square (PLS) approach will be used to test the study hypotheses. The present research findings are expected to broader the picture of entrepreneur competencies (EC) and SMEs performance researches by revealing the financial literacy and each sub-dimensions of entrepreneur competencies (EC) effect on SMEs financial performance. Further, it may confirm the moderating role of firm resources availability and government support on SMEs financial performance.

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Malaysian women entrepreneurial characteristics, strategic orientation and firm performance: The moderator role of government support programs

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