COGNITIVE MAPS AND PERCEPTIONS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL GROWTH: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURS, CORPORATE MANAGERS, AND STUDENTS

This paper reports on a comparative quasi-experiment of how perceptions of entrepreneurial growth strategies differ between students, managers and technology entrepreneurs. The differences in perceptions as to what critical factors drive three strategies: no growth, market share growth and annual profit growth across to stages: start-up and take-off are measured. The ranks of the critical success factors are the dependent measures and the strategies and the phases the independent variables. Results show that experience impacts the ability to distinguish between strategies. Results also show that the perceptions of the critical success factors significantly differ between the groups. Hence even experience will yield quite different cognitive maps.

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Augmented fuzzy cognitive maps for modelling LMS critical success factors

Knowledge-Based Systems ◽

10.1016/j.knosys.2009.01.002 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 275-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 79

Author(s):

Jose L. Salmeron

Keyword(s):

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Cognitive Maps ◽

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps ◽

Critical Success

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Critical Success Factors in Construction Projects

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.e6408.018520 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 1799-1804

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Construction Projects ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Project Success ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Clear Indication ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Independent Variables ◽

Critical Success

For the successful implementation of the construction projects, researchers have tried to analyze the success factors. In the available literature, there is no clear indication to the success factors that are related to the projects related to construction. Many major construction journals were included to review the project success factors and developed a framework including six groups of independent variables, namely PRF, PMTMRF, PMRF, CLRF, CORF & EF and one dependent variable, i.e., CPS. The main purpose of this research is to test the developed conceptual framework on the CSFs in construction projects. Further the scale is tested for validity and reliability and finally SEM is applied and it is found that CSFs have 70.8% impact on the CPS. And also it is found that PMRF has the maximum impact in the success of construction projects.

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Deciphering Food Hawkerpreneurship: Challenges and success factors in franchising street food businesses in Malaysia

Tourism and Hospitality Research ◽

10.1177/1467358420926695 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 493-509

Author(s):

Ka Leong Chong ◽

Marcus Lee Stephenson

Keyword(s):

Capital Investment ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Traditional Food ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Street Food ◽

Critical Success ◽

Start Up ◽

Support Mechanisms ◽

Young Entrepreneurs

This study investigates the challenges and identifies the critical success factors in transforming traditional hawker food into a franchisable business, principally within the context of Malaysia. This study aims to provide guidelines that could support the process of enterprising traditional street food businesses, especially to assist the mobilization and promotion of hawkerpreneurship for existing traditional food hawkers and future adopters. A total of five hawkerpreneurs and four traditional hawkers were qualitatively assessed through semi-structured interviews. As a result, four critical challenges that both hawkerpreneurs and traditional hawkers encountered were identified, namely: (1) exploring the unknown (2) high capital investment for total ‘make-over’ (3) lack of knowledge in brand repositioning and (4) resistance to automation and standardization, particularly as a way to retain authenticity. By considering these concerns, young entrepreneurs and financial investors can assess the potentiality and feasibility of hawker food, and identify areas to focus on in running a successful traditional street food business. The results of this study could further assist in developing the support mechanisms and start-up strategies that encourage the adoption of hawker food entrepreneurship among Malaysians.

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Efektivitas Scrum Pada Manajemen Proyek Teknologi Informasi Di Pt Bank Central Asia Tbk.

Jurnal Manajemen Bisnis dan Kewirausahaan ◽

10.24912/jmbk.v3i4.4989 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Shandy Shandy

Keyword(s):

Project Management ◽

Central Asia ◽

Significant Influence ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Research Use ◽

It Project Management ◽

Independent Variables ◽

Critical Success ◽

It Project

Since the end of 2014, BCA has started to use Scrum framework in order to switch from waterfall methodology that already considered as traditional IT project methodology. Regarding that condition, this research aims to find out the effectiveness of Scrum framework on IT project management at PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA). This research use a model to describe correlation between five Scrum Critical Success Factors ,that assumed as measurement of Scrum effectiveness, and four factors perceived as success of IT project management. With this model, the research has twelve independent variables and four dependent variables to be analyzed. This research use quantitative method and multiple regression analysis as a method for conducting analysis. The study found that three from five Scrum Critical Success Factors that have significant influence to four factors perceived as success of IT project management. From those three Scrum Critical Success Factors, there are five independent variables that have significant influence, such as management commitment, project management process, project definition process, project type and project schedule. The use of Scrum framework is quite effective on IT project management at PT Bank Central Asia Tbk.

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Why context matters for start-ups' critical success factors

SCENTIA International Economic Review ◽

10.52514/sier.v1i1.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 43-61

Author(s):

Fabian Broszat ◽

Milan Fekete

Keyword(s):

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Success Factor ◽

Critical Success Factor ◽

Critical Success ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Start Up ◽

Start Ups ◽

First Time

Current research in the field of critical success factors of start-ups refers to general factors with which important information about the start-up is lost. Start-ups are too individual for a generalistic assessment, so a novel approach is presented in this paper that allows the context of start-ups to be included in the assessment of critical success factors. This results in the context-based critical success factor, which is defined for the first time in this paper.

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Control engineering education critical success factors modeling via Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET) ◽

10.1109/ithet.2013.6671061 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Engin Yesil ◽

Cihan Ozturk ◽

M. Furkan Dodurka ◽

Atakan Sahin

Keyword(s):

Engineering Education ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Cognitive Maps ◽

Fuzzy Cognitive Maps ◽

Control Engineering ◽

Critical Success

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Critical Success Factors That Influence Black Leadership Integration in Companies Listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange

International Journal of Business and Management ◽

10.5539/ijbm.v13n5p72 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 72

Author(s):

Biren Valodia ◽

Ted Sun ◽

Thomas Zachariah

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Corporate Culture ◽

Critical Success Factors ◽

Success Factors ◽

Research Question ◽

Black Leadership ◽

Independent Variables ◽

Fair Treatment ◽

Critical Success ◽

Dependent Variables

In the context of post-apartheid period, there have been certain measures introduced to have employment equity in South Africa. The integration of black leadership in a white dominant companies was one among them. The purpose of this study is to identify the critical success factors that influence black leadership integration as per the reform measures defined after post-apartheid period in South Africa. The overall research question guiding this study is: What are the critical success factors that influence black leadership integration in companies listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange? The quantitative correlation research design utilizes a pre-validated survey to access the success factors that influence black leadership integration. To address the research question, the independent variables – corporate culture, leadership style, diversity and strategic leadership behaviours – were correlated with three dependent variables - tenure (years of service), job satisfaction and growth satisfaction (career development opportunities) as measures of successful leadership integration. The study finds statistically significant relationships amongst many of the 32 constructs identified in the literature which using factor analysis are described as fair treatment, job hopping, commitment to transformation, Black entrepreneurship and corporate culture. As defined by Black management, job satisfaction, career development (dependent variables), fair treatment and specific leaders behaviours (inspirational motivation and idealised attributes) (independent variables) as defined by MLQ 5X leadership survey are critical success measures that could influence Black leadership integration in Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) listed companies. The results of this study provide strong evidence of critical success factors that have a statistically significant influence on successful Black leadership integration into historically White dominated South African companies.

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