Abu Bakar, Juliana and Mohamad, Zam Zuriyati and S. A., Sharmeela-Banu and Ganapathy, Thavamalar (2020) Empirical Evidence of Obstacles of Women Entrepreneurship's Growth in Malaysia. Journal of Business Management and Accounting (JBMA), 10 (2). pp. 67-84. ISSN 2231-9298 (e2636-9249)

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Abstract

Women's equality and empowerment are one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that was initiated to eliminate gender discrimination. This goal can be achieved through establishing women entrepreneurship by employing critical failure factor analysis. Thus, this study was aimed to explore the obstacles faced by women entrepreneurs; consisting of restricted training and education, legal constraints, limited access to financial resources, and family-related interface. Besides, this study was intended to examine how these obstacles affected women entrepreneurs' growth. Data related to 109 women entrepreneurs' in Malaysia were collected. The Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to rank these obstacles. Subsequently, partial least square structural equation model analysis was performed on the data. The findings revealed that restricted training and education, limited access to financial resources, and family related interface have an adverse effect on women entrepreneurs' growth. Therefore, theoretically this study offered a new women entrepreneurs model by linking the obstacles and growth within a single study.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Women Entrepreneurship, Training and Education, Financial Resources, Family-Related Interfaces, Critical Failure Factor, Relative Importance Index
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions:	Institute for Management and Business Research (IMBRe)
Depositing User:	Mrs Nurin Jazlina Hamid
Date Deposited:	27 Nov 2023 09:27
Last Modified:	27 Nov 2023 09:27
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29976

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