The Impact of Entrepreneur’s Motivation and Competencies: An Exploratory Study of E-Commerce New Venture Creations in Malaysia

Fadzil, Ahmad Firdause Md; Yaacob, Mohd Rafi; Sallehudin, Hasimi; Salleh, Fauzilah; Muhayiddin, Mohd Nazri; Mukhtar, Dzulkifli; Ibrahim, Rashidah Mohamad

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v9-i8/6220

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“…The three different personality factors in the study reflect individuals’ motivation or behavior purpose when engaging in social media and e-commerce. Fadzil et al (2020) also concluded that internal and external motivation impacts entrepreneurial motivation when establishing new ventures. Against this background, the outcomes of the study tend to support the belief that internal motivation has a more important impact on entrepreneurial intention.…”

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Graduates’ Entrepreneurial Intention in a Developing Country: The Influence of Social Media and E-commerce Adoption (SMEA) and its Antecedents

Shi

Nyedu

Huang

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Information Development

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Entrepreneurship is the key to addressing employment issues among young people and maintaining the sustainable development of a local economy in Africa. As the digital wave has swept across the continent, new technologies, such as social media and e-commerce, have provided essential opportunities for young people to start a business. However, little attention has been paid to the association between social media and e-commerce adoption (SMEA) and youth entrepreneurship in Africa. This study proposes a theoretical model focusing on the effects of SMEA, as well as its antecedents, on entrepreneurship by investigating a sample of 232 graduates in Ghana. Empirical results show that SMEA has a significant association with entrepreneurial intention. In terms of SMEA antecedents, it is interesting to note that internal factors (i.e. social influence, hedonic motivations, and habit) have a more positive effect on SMEA rather than external factors (i.e. performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and facilitating conditions). Furthermore, the results demonstrate that perceived risk is inversely related to SMEA. The mechanism analysis also reveals that SMEA can act as a bridge between worthy antecedents and entrepreneurial intention. The above findings imply that the adoption of social media and e-commerce allows young people in Ghana to take the initiative to start a business, but the perceived risk associated with entrepreneurship should be regulated.

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Graduates’ Entrepreneurial Intention in a Developing Country: The Influence of Social Media and E-commerce Adoption (SMEA) and its Antecedents

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Nyedu

Huang

et al. 2022

Information Development

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“…Many researchers agreed that self-determination contributes to an individual's outcome (Shir, Nikolaev, & Wincent, 2018). According to Fadzil et al (2019), self-motivation is one element of the new venture entrepreneur's outcome. It is aligned with the finding in research conducted by Al-Jubari (2019), which shows that individuals with a high level of self-determination gravitate toward becoming entrepreneurs.…”

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“…Agency theory focuses more on the economic and finance field (Abdulrahman, 2014;Boučková, 2015). On the other hand, many scholars discuss self-determination in work organization and entrepreneurial (Bakker & van Woerkom, 2017;Fadzil et al, 2019), but few studies concentrate on the motivation from Takaful perspective. Therefore, this paper attempts to relate the agentprincipal relationship and motivation with the sustainability of Takaful agents.…”

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Sustainability & Successful Takaful Agents: What Matters?

Zawawi¹,

Salleh²,

Fadzil³

2021

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This conceptual paper is written to review related literature about the sustainability of successful Takaful agents in Malaysia. Studies on Takaful agents' sustainability have gained interest among scholars because Takaful contributes to the country's development in terms of growing its economy, generating financial resources and creating job opportunities. Conversely, existing literature focusing on Takaful agents is still lacking. In view of this, this particular study attempts to develop a conceptual framework using an agent-principal relationship and motivation to explain this phenomenon. The integration of economic and management theories, mainly Takaful agent sustainability is insufficiently discussed and still infantile. Hence, this paper aims to close the gap by comprehensively reviewing all elements required in integrating the two theories that contribute to this phenomenon. It is important to note that Takaful agents' motivation to apply agent-principal relationships is sustained, which meets the demand for the untapped market in the Takaful industry. Thus, this paper is significant as it provides a critical corpus of knowledge and a better understanding of both theories' elements.

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“…Alongside governments across the world, the international academic community has paid attention to the phenomena and roles of new firm formation and related issues from the different perspectives of various social sciences disciplines [12][13][14][15][16][17]. For example, psychologists have focused on startup entrepreneurs' psychological characteristics and startup behaviours [18], and have explored the relative influence of the individual characteristics of entrepreneurs (training and education, family backgrounds, and professional experience) and regional and social factors (e.g., human capital, entrepreneurial environment) on the performance of startups, often using the comparative study of different samples [18][19][20]. Management scholars have investigated the impact of variation in start-up entrepreneurs' personal relationship networks, management models, and personal experiences on their early performance through case analysis and questionnaire research [21][22][23][24].…”

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The Evolution of the Spatial Patterns of Startup Firms in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China in the 21st Century

Liang

Liu

2022

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It is increasingly recognized by policymakers and the academic community that startup firms play an important role in enhancing national and regional economic competitiveness. Existing studies have focused mainly on developed countries and highly marketed city-regions in developing countries, lacking sufficient attention to underdeveloped regions. The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is the poorest province in post 1949 ‘New China’. In recent years, the TAR’s government has released a series of policies to encourage the establishment and development of startup firms, but understanding how to promote social development and economic growth through the creation and development of startup firms is still a significant issue for the TAR’s government. Therefore, taking Tibet as a case area, this article discusses the evolution of the spatial patterns of startup firms in underdeveloped regions in China. The findings include: ① The past two decades have witnessed tremendous growth in the number of startup firms; however, the number and rate of growth are not geographically even. ② In terms of geographical distribution, startup firms in the TAR have concentrated on or around key nodes along major transport corridors (place dependence); however, with the development of transportation infrastructure and development zones, they have also been established in new localities (place creation). ③ Although all subregions of the TAR have spatial agglomerations of startup firms, they are different in agglomeration characteristics. Finally, after acknowledging shortcomings in its research, this article calls for multi-sited research to investigate the diversity of the spatial patterns and dynamics of new firm formation in the underdeveloped regions of China.

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The Impact of Entrepreneur’s Motivation and Competencies: An Exploratory Study of E-Commerce New Venture Creations in Malaysia

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

Graduates’ Entrepreneurial Intention in a Developing Country: The Influence of Social Media and E-commerce Adoption (SMEA) and its Antecedents

Graduates’ Entrepreneurial Intention in a Developing Country: The Influence of Social Media and E-commerce Adoption (SMEA) and its Antecedents

Sustainability & Successful Takaful Agents: What Matters?

The Evolution of the Spatial Patterns of Startup Firms in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China in the 21st Century

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