scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURS CHARACTERISTICS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISES: THE CASE OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA (KSA)

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Yasser Al Farisi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Leadership Competency ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
Calculated Risk ◽  
Entrepreneurial Competencies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Innovation Leadership ◽  
The Impact

This study seeks to examine the effect of entrepreneurial competencies (innovation, leadership, networking and risk-taking) on the survival of SMEs in KSA. The literature review evaluates the relationship between each of the entrepreneurial competencies and their effect on survival of SMEs worldwide. We have opted to adopt a descriptive research design. The findings reveal that entrepreneurial competencies (innovation competency, leadership competency, networking competency and risk-taking competency) of the SME owners/managers (entrepreneurs) have a positive and significant effect on the survival of SMEs in KSA. The study recommends SMEs should embrace innovation competency as a means of enhancing survival and leadership competency which is the key aspect for both survival and performance. SMEs should also embrace networking competency as a way of gaining competitive advantage and widening customer base, adopting the calculated risk-taking strategies in their operations.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance of Selected SMEs in Southeast, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
Ifeanyi E. Nuel Okoli ◽  
Kanayo Chike Nwosu ◽  
Miracle Ejike Okechukwu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Access To Finance ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
Simple Regression Analysis ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

This study examines the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on performance of selected small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Southeast Nigeria. The problems that led to this study include, inadequate access to finance, poor infrastructure, inconsistency with government policy, poor support (business development work), inadequate sales, too many taxes and obsolete technologies leading to massive failures. It has not been found that the epileptic growth of SMEs in Southeast Nigeria is not only due to the problems but also from the entrepreneurial orientation. The survey research method was employed in this study and the study relied on secondary and primary data. The population of this study was drawn from SMEs in the five states in the Southeast Nigeria. The study was done using three hundred and sixty six small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Complete enumeration was adopted. Simple regression analysis was used to analysis the hypotheses. The study revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between pro-activeness, innovativeness and risk taking on performance of SMEs in Southeast Nigeria. The study concluded that entrepreneurial-oriented firms tend to lead the industry with innovations, performing things in a better approach to satisfy customers and give the firm a better leverage. The study recommends that SMEs owners and managers should be committed to process and radical innovation in their dealings so as to increase and expand their customer base.

The Impact of Business Mentoring on Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises Performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Mohammad Adrian ◽  
Hendrati Dwi Mulyaningsih ◽  
Santi Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Causal Analysis ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Simple Regression Analysis ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Necessity Entrepreneur ◽  
Simple Regression

This reasearch is conducted on MMSME (Micro Small Medium Enterprises) that are participated in the MMSME Syari’ah Mentoring Program by Academicians and Practitioners (PUSPA) organized by Bank Indonesia in Bandung. MMSME who participated in PUSPA program 2016 is MMSME that included in necessity entrepreneur where MMSME operated just to fullfil the life necessities. The purpose of this reasearch was to investigate the influence of the business mentoring on the MMSME performance in PUSPA program 2016. Researcher used quantitative research method. Data were analyzed using simple regression analysis and descriptive-causal analysis. The result showed that business mentoring affect the performance of MMSME that participated in PUSPA Program 2016. Based on the calculation, coefficient of determination (R2) can be seen the influence of business mentoring variable (X) on the performance (Y) is 74%. While the remaining 26% is influenced by other factors such as entrepreneurship competence and human resources.

THE IMPACT OF COMPETENCY ENTREPRENEURSHIP ON MICRO, SMALL, MEDIUM ENTERPRISES PERFORMANCE

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Elsa Nanda Utami ◽  
Hendrati Dwi Mulyaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Financial Term ◽  
Simple Regression Analysis ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Necessity Entrepreneur

This reasearch is conducted on MSME (Micro Small Medium Enterprises) that are participated in the MSME Syari’ah Mentoring Program by Academition and Practitioners (PUSPA) organized by Bank Indonesia in Bandung. MSME who participated in PUSPA program 2016 is MSME that included in necessity entrepreneur where MSME operated just to fullfil the life necessities. This program aims to improve the competence of entrepreneurship owned by MSME in term of knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Increased in the entrepreneurial comptence will have an impact on MSME perfomance both on financial term by the increase in income and non-financial term namely by the increased of the knowledge and skills like simple accounting, managing the production process, how to market the product, and know the procedures for obtaining the venture capital. The purpose of this reasearch was to investigate the influence of the entrepreneurial competence on the MSME performance in PUSPA program 2016.Researcher used quantitative research method. This research use sampling technique on non-probability sampling that is saturated sampling because the members of population less than 30 people and the entire population is a sample. Total sample in this research is 20 respondents. Data collecting in this research is done by distributing questionarries to all respondents that is MSME that pariticaped in PUSPA program 2016. Data were analyzed using simple regression analysis and descriptive-causal analysis.The result showed that entrepreneurial competenec affect the performance of MSME that participated in PUSPA Program 2016. Based on the calculation, coefficent of determination (R2) can be seen the influence of entrepreneurial compentence variable (X) on the performance (Y) is 61.7%. While the remaining 38.3 is influenced by other factors such as mentoring, motivation, and human resources.

THE IMPACT OF BUSINESS MENTORING ON MICRO, SMALL, MEDIUM ENTERPRISES PERFORMANCE

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Mohammad Adrian ◽  
Santi Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Simple Regression Analysis ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Necessity Entrepreneur ◽  
Simple Regression

This reasearch is conducted on MSME (Micro Small Medium Enterprises) that are participated in the MSME Syari’ah Mentoring Program by Academition and Practitioners (PUSPA) organized by Bank Indonesia in Bandung. MSME who participated in PUSPA program 2016 is MSME that included in necessity entrepreneur where MSME operated just to fullfil the life necessities.The purpose of this reasearch was to investigate the influence of the business mentoring on the MSME performance in PUSPA program 2016.Researcher used quantitative research method. Data were analyzed using simple regression analysis and descriptive-causal analysis.The result showed that business mentoring affect the performance of MSME that participated in PUSPA Program 2016. Based on the calculation, coefficient of determination (R2) can be seen the influence of business mentoring variable (X) on the performance (Y) is 74%. While the remaining 26% is influenced by other factors such as entrepreneurship competence and human resources.  

The Role of Internet Utilization Among SMEs on Household Welfare in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Ariska N. Rini ◽  
Lienggar Rahadiantino
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Household Welfare ◽  
Capita Expenditure ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
Using Data ◽  
One Year ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

The Internet has a significant influence on poverty alleviation and economic growth. Internet involvement in small-medium enterprises (SMEs) has the opportunity to create a better level of welfare. Using data from the fifth wave of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), this study aims to analyze the impact of internet utilization on household welfare among two groups, household enterprises with internet use for business and without internet use for business. The results of the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method mention that household enterprises with internet for business purposes have higher household per capita expenditure, food consumption, and non-food expenditure than household enterprises without internet use. Another interesting result finds that household enterprises are likely to use the internet only if household heads at a young age and business establish less than one year.

Internationalization of industrial small-medium enterprises in an emerging country

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Enrique Ibarra-Morales ◽  
Monica Blanco-Jimenez ◽  
Beatriz Alejandra Hurtado-Bringas
Keyword(s):  
Export Performance ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Multiple Regression Model ◽  
Product Price ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Installed Capacity ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to boost the internationalization of companies by implementing key factors that will help them to increase their exports in a context of an emerging country such as Mexico, where very few small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) achieve internationalization. Design/methodology/approach According to different theories on the internationalization of companies, five independent variables were designed to measure their effect on the export performance using a multiple regression model on a sample of 95 Mexican industrial SMEs. In this context, the objective of this study is to investigate the impact of the product price, product quality, installed capacity, innovation capacity and financial capacity on the export performance of SMEs; and to identify the factors that are more significant. Findings The results indicate that innovation has a positive relationship, while the price of the product has a negative relationship with the internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises, showing that there is a possibility of overemphasizing the role of both variables in export performance of SMEs, at least in the Mexican context. The rest of the variables were not statistically significant to the generated model, perhaps because they are implicitly considered at the time of exporting and entering international markets. Originality/value These results will help companies to focus their efforts on obtaining resources to maintain and expand exports and find new opportunities in foreign markets to grow. They also show that companies can implement different types of internationalization strategies with the study’s variables to achieve better performance.

scholarly journals Predictors of Superior Firm Performance: a Conceptual Model of Tourism Small Medium Enterprises in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.21) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Sarminah Samad ◽  
Dalal Alrubaishi ◽  
Rasha Alghafis
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Deriving from previous literatures, the theories of Resource-based View and Dynamic Capability was used in this study to propose a model that examines the predictors of the performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Accordingly, it will examine the influence of corporate management strategy on the performance of SMEs. It will analyze the extent to which innovative dynamic capabilities would enhance the relationship between corporate management strategy and performance of SMEs. It will also examine the extent innovation leadership serves as the moderator factor on the link between corporate management strategy and performance of SMEs. Finally, this paper intends to recommend a model of performance management system for the performance of tourism SMEs in Saudi Arabia. The study will employ a quantitative approach among selected tourism SMEs in Saudi Arabia. SPSS and AMOS (SEM) will be used to analyse the data obtained. Findings from this study will serve as a guideline for policy and decision makers in both private and public organizations.  

Organization-stakeholder relationship and performance of Iranian SMEs

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-436
Author(s):  
Alireza Jalali ◽  
Mastura Jaafar ◽  
T. Ramayah
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stakeholder Relationships ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Stakeholder Relationship

Purpose This study aims to explore the direct and indirect effects of organizational stakeholder’s relationship on performance through innovativeness and risk-taking among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach This study used the cluster sampling method to select the study sample and the questionnaire survey approach to 580 SMEs established in Tehran. A total of 150 completed questionnaires were returned. Partial least squares-structural equation modeling was administered to analyze data via the SmartPLS 3.0 software. Findings The survey outcomes revealed that organization-stakeholder relationship had an indirect effect on performance through innovativeness and risk-taking. The results indicated positive links for organization-stakeholder relationship and innovativeness, as well as the organization-stakeholder relationship to risk-taking. Practical implications This research is beneficial for entrepreneurs who wish to learn about the specific resources significant for venture growth, to devise effective strategies to expand their relationship with stakeholders and to consider the significance of the correlations established, in this study, through innovativeness and risk-taking. Originality/value This research is one of the few attempts that have addressed the importance of innovativeness and risk-taking as the key mechanisms to transform the advantages of organization-stakeholder relationships to enhance performance.

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