Subhan, Muhammad and Hussain, Fawad and Md Isa, Mohd Azwardi and Ahmad Shukri, Saiful Husni (2016) The relationship between financial support, non-financial attributes and entrepreneurial business performance: A case study on MARA SPiM loan scheme. In: 10th International Conference on Business and Management Research (ICBMR), October 25, 2016 – October 27, 2016, The Jayakarta Lombok Beach Resort, Indonesia. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
This paper is aimed at examining the relationship between financial support, non-financial attributes, and entrepreneurial business performance.The paper studied on how advisory services, entrepreneurial skills/knowledge, entrepreneurial mindset entrepreneurial attitude play a significant role in influencing business performance (profitability, growth and assets).Using a quantitative approach, this study analyzed data from 96 respondents from the survey of 105 participants.All respondents are entrepreneurs who were loan takers of MARA-SPiM scheme which was approved from 2014 to 2015 from 10 districts in Perak State of Malaysia.The analysis was performed using SPSS and Smart-PLS statistical software.The findings established that financial services play a significant role in influencing entrepreneur's business performance.On the other hand, it was revealed that entrepreneurial attitude (one of the non-financial attributes) plays a significant role in influencing entrepreneur's business performance.This study also found that the arrangement of financial services and non-financial services are very important for entrepreneurs' business success in term of rising profitability, growing their business and increasing their assets.Besides that, advisory services, entrepreneur skill/knowledge, and entrepreneur mindset were unable to show any influence on entrepreneurs' business performance.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Business Performance, Entrepreneurship, Financial Services, Non-Financial Attributes, Malaysia |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Divisions: | School of International Studies |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Muhammad Subhan |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2016 07:59 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2016 07:59 |
| URI: | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/19743 |
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