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Title:	Competence, resilience, perceived environment and entrepreneurial success among women entrepreneurs
Authors:	Bushra Usman (P68530)
Supervisor:	Nor Aishah Buang, Prof. Dr.
Keywords:	Entrepreneurship Businesswomen
Issue Date:	30-Mar-2016
Description:	Entrepreneurship is a field where women entrepreneurs have always been silently impinging their marks. Thus, Women Entrepreneurship as a silent revolution warrants full attention. This study aimed to examine the relationship among competence, resilience, perceived environment and women entrepreneurial success among women entrepreneurs in Malaysia. In order to conduct this research, a mixed method approach was adopted in a sequential manner (i.e. qualitative leading to quantitative). Firstly in the qualitative stage, interviews with ten women entrepreneurs were conducted to get to know the in depth meanings of success through hermeneutic phenomenology. Study reveals that women grant primary importance to non-financial gains and deem financial gains as secondary. Seven broader themes emerged which include: autonomy; internal satisfaction; customer base; family; networking; business growth and business performance through quality. Furthermore, a success measuring instrument was developed based on these emerged themes. This success measuring instrument was then further used in the second stage of this study i.e. the quantitative stage of this study. Additionally, this instrument is found to be a reliable and valid one with very good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.933) in quantitative stage of the study. This remarkable contribution is likely to benefit the future researches measuring women entrepreneurial success. Next in the quantitative stage, the study aimed to test the relationship among competence, resilience, perceived environment and women entrepreneurial success among women entrepreneurs in Malaysia. The results obtained from PLS-SEM, signify the importance of competence in building up resilience and gaining success. Competence, however, reflects a set of competencies related to self (optimism, motivation, flexibility, mental and physical fitness and spiritual strength), business situational cognition (problem solving skills) and business social relational competencies (social networking) that are found to have share in constructing resilience and leading to success. In addition, it was concluded on the basis of results of quantitative stage of this study that resilience is predictive of self-reports of women entrepreneurial success in Malaysia. Additionally, the mediating role of resilience on the relationship between competence and success is also confirmed through the findings of this study. Interestingly, perceived environment (benign and stable/dynamic) is also found to build resilience and also show positive and significant effect on success. However, the moderating role of perceived environment is not confirmed on the relationship between competence and resilience; also on the relationship between resilience and success, On the other hand, the moderating role of perceived environment is confirmed on the relationship between competence and success and predicts that even less competent women entrepreneurs may become successful if the environment is perceived as benign and supportive in nature. Results of this study reveal the importance of competence, resilience and perceived environment in gaining success for women entrepreneurs.,Certification of Master's/Doctoral Thesis" is not available
Pages:	423
Call Number:	HD6053.B837 2016 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Education / Fakulti Pendidikan

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