scholarly journals Determinants of Business Performance Amongst Women Entrepreneur in Johor, Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadhrah Manas ◽  
Nor Hamimah Mastor ◽  
Fadilah Zaini
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
Women Entrepreneur

scholarly journals Effect of ICT on Women Entrepreneur Business Performance: Case of Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filzah Md Isa ◽  
Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad ◽  
Azizah Ahmad ◽  
Shaista Noor
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Order System ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Purchase Order ◽  
Chinese Entrepreneurs ◽  
Women Entrepreneur

Women entrepreneur has gained utmost importance in the past few decades in Malaysia due to their significant contribution to the country's economic development. However, few business challenges create a constant obstruction for many women entrepreneurs such as lack of ICT knowledge, time constraint to learn ICT, lack of technological expertise, etc. The present study aims to identify the effect of ICT adoption on business performance and examine how ICT usage helped them handle operational business matters. The present study adopted the qualitative research strategy, and researchers interviewed ten (10) women entrepreneurs for this study. A semi-structured interview technique was applied, and six Malay and four Chinese entrepreneurs made the study population. The result highlights that Malay and Chinese entrepreneurs use ICT in their business operation such as warehousing system, purchasing system, HRM software and accounting system, purchase order system, production system, internal communication, and AutoCAD. The present study may support the prospective entrepreneurs in considering the ICT usage to embark on technology and innovation and provide inputs to policymakers to design a proper support system for Malaysian women entrepreneurs, particularly those new entrepreneurs who are mostly young and inexperienced.

scholarly journals Effect of ICT on Women Entrepreneur Business Performance: Case of Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Filzah Md Isa ◽  
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Nik Maheran Nik Muhammad ◽  
Azizah Ahmad ◽  
Shaista Noor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Order System ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Purchase Order ◽  
Chinese Entrepreneurs ◽  
Women Entrepreneur

Women entrepreneur has gained utmost importance in the past few decades in Malaysia due to their significant contribution to the country's economic development. However, few business challenges create a constant obstruction for many women entrepreneurs such as lack of ICT knowledge, time constraint to learn ICT, lack of technological expertise, etc. The present study aims to identify the effect of ICT adoption on business performance and examine how ICT usage helped them handle operational business matters. The present study adopted the qualitative research strategy, and researchers interviewed ten (10) women entrepreneurs for this study. A semi-structured interview technique was applied, and six Malay and four Chinese entrepreneurs made the study population. The result highlights that Malay and Chinese entrepreneurs use ICT in their business operation such as warehousing system, purchasing system, HRM software and accounting system, purchase order system, production system, internal communication, and AutoCAD. The present study may support the prospective entrepreneurs in considering the ICT usage to embark on technology and innovation and provide inputs to policymakers to design a proper support system for Malaysian women entrepreneurs, particularly those new entrepreneurs who are mostly young and inexperienced.

scholarly journals An Empirical Investigation of Entrepreneurial Orientation of Women Entrepreneur in Sabah

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-178
Author(s):  
Azlin Shafinaz Arshad ◽  
Afiza Azura Arshad ◽  
Laila Mohammad Kamaruddin ◽  
Siti Zahrah Buyong a ◽  
Che Asniza Osman
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
And Training ◽  
Women Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurial orientation has been recognized as one of the determinants of business performance. The purpose of this study is to determine the entrepreneurial orientation of women entrepreneurs in Sabah by adopting entrepreneurial orientation five-dimensions.   A quantitative study using questionnaire was adopted. The respondents of the study were women entrepreneurs who took part in Sabah Women Entrepreneur Carnival 2020, organized by Sabah Women's Affairs Department.  The sampling method adopted was convenience sampling. Questionnaires were distributed to 150 women entrepreneurs, but only 93 responses were usable.  The findings of the study indicate women entrepreneurs in Sabah are entrepreneurial oriented as the mean scores were all above 3.5.  Moreover, out of the five dimensions, these women entrepreneurs are more competitive as it has the highest mean score (M=4.18).   However, women entrepreneurs in Sabah are found not proactive since the mean score generated was the lowest among all five dimensions with M=3.22.   The study adds some contributions to the field of entrepreneurship.  Ministries and agencies involved with the development of women entrepreneurs in Sabah can aid and support women entrepreneurs to grow and sustain their business. Various courses and training can be offered to enhance women entrepreneur’s knowledge and skills.

scholarly journals Affective Need of ICT in Improving Business Performance among Malay Women Entrepreneur

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faradillah Iqmar Omar ◽  
Nur Ajeerah Othman ◽  
Mohd Azul Mohamad Salleh ◽  
Nor Hafizah Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
Women Entrepreneur

scholarly journals Ketahanan Entrepreneur Perempuan pada Masa Pandemi COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Paskanova Christi Gainau ◽  
Yuli Rawun
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Stratified Random Sampling ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
The City ◽  
Women Entrepreneur

The outbreak of Covid-19 has weakened the performance of micro businesses, especially micro scale women entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs implement various measures to sustain their businesses through the pandemic. This study aims to examine the factors that influence the performance of micro businesses in the city of Manado, North Sulawesi Province. The study uses the sample of 30 micro businesses collected through questionnaires, observations, and interviews with women entrepreneurs with stratified random sampling technique. The collected data was then analyzed with SmartPLS 3.0 M3. The results found that trust and networks have significant influences on the performance of micro businesses during the crisis. The findings imply that businesses need to establish strong relationships with customers as a mean to building trust and networking to enable businesses to survive in the midst of a crisis. In addition, businesses should also improvise their products in times of crisis to maintain the cash flow.Keywords: women entrepreneur; business performance; trust; smartPLS AbstrakPandemi Covid-19 telah menghambat produktivitas usaha di sektor mikro, tidak terkecuali para pelaku usaha perempuan. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi kinerja usaha sektor mikro di Kota Manado, Sulawesi Utara. Penelitian ini menggunakan sampel yang dipilih secara acak yang terdiri dari 30 pelaku usaha mikro perempuan. Data dianalisis menggunakan SmartPLS 3.0 M3, setelah melalui prosespenyebaran kuesioner, observasi, dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian menemukan bahwa faktor kepercayaan (trust) dan jaringan (network) memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap kinerja usaha mikro di masa krisis. Kedua faktor ini sangat penting karena kepercayaan dan jaringan memberikan kemampuan bagi pelaku usaha untuk tetap bertahan di masa krisis. Selain itu, pelaku usaha juga sebaiknya melakukan improvisasi atas produknya dimasa krisis untuk menjaga kelancaran arus kas.

Technological Strategies to Increase Performance of Women-Owned SMEs

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-79
Author(s):  
Wawan Dhewanto ◽  
Fera Yunita ◽  
Vania Nur Rizqi ◽  
Salma Azzahra
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Women Entrepreneur

Women empowerment and women entrepreneurship has become interesting topic in many researches. This growing attention triggered by education and socio-cultural betterment towards women. Nowadays people see women as important as men in professional context, including their important role to lead and create enterprises. Not only in developed countries, women in developing economy also build opportunities to create enterprises (Motukuri, 2010). There are large number of enterprises in developing economy owned by women (Deka, 2018). The enterprises dominated by small and medium scale enterprises. Instead of rapid development in women enterprises, there are also challenges. Global market provides new chance yet tight competition at the same time. Technological change is one of the key strategies to win competition and increase company performance (Akman and Dagdeviren, 2018). The use of technology in SME's owned by women in developing economies has grow significantly. Technology in this context is not only about Information Communication and Technology (ICT) that has widespread user nowaday. The technology in this context also involving processing technology, for example handling and packaging. Based on prevoius research, the use of technology has brought women enterprises into better business performance and growth. The example of this growth are opening new market, increasing production capacity and adding product diversification (Suhaimi et al, 2018). This research aim to recognize the diverse of strategies to technology in SMEs owned by women, by unfolding the following research questions : 1) What key technology that use to increase business performance in SMEs owned by women? 2) To what extent the business growing? 3) What are the most important influences for women entrepreneur in using the technology? 4) What kind of collaboration that moderating the use of technology to increase business performance for women entrepreneur? Keywords: SMEs, Scale up, Woman Entrepreneurship, Technology Adoption, Technology Strategy.

Pengembangan Kemitraan Koperasi, Usaha Mikro Dan Kecil (KUMK) Dengan Usaha Menengah/Besar Untuk Komoditi Unggulan Lokal

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dandan Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Business Partnerships ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Business Partnership ◽  
Structure Factors ◽  
Micro And Small Enterprises ◽  
Business Entities

Basically a natural partnership will achieve its goal if mutual requirements, mutual reinforcement, and mutual benefit can be maintained and made a strong fundamental commitment among partners. Nevertheless the development seems very slow. The cause is the presence of specific and different conditions and structure factors compared to other countries. Along with that, we still encounter various forms of gaps, such as inequality among regions, among income groups, between sectors, among economic actors, and so forth. The next problem is that in business entities including cooperatives and micro and small enterprises in running their business activities requires business partnerships with medium and large enterprises in order to improve business performance and business scale. While on the other hand our economic conditions and structures are not yet fully conducive to fostering partnerships based on purely business considerations or competitive market motivations but the business partnership of the foundation is strong enough in our country's constitution. Partnerships will work if partners are equally benefiting. Our concept of partnership is like that, although in the short term, there is a party or a party benefiting more from the other side.

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