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Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor

This research studied the role of personal qualities, management skills, and opportunity recognition skills of entrepreneurs in influencing the venture performance. In this research, personal qualities and management skills were combined into a single construct, qualities-skills. Specifically, this...

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Main Authors: Sambasivan, Murali, Abdul, Mohani, Yusop, Yuzliani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2009
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40287/1/Impact%20of%20personal%20qualities%20and%20management%20skills%20of%20entrepreneurs%20on%20venture%20performance%20in%20Malaysia%20opportunity%20recognition%20skills%20as%20a%20mediating%20factor.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.402872015-09-15T08:26:53Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40287/ Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor Sambasivan, Murali Abdul, Mohani Yusop, Yuzliani This research studied the role of personal qualities, management skills, and opportunity recognition skills of entrepreneurs in influencing the venture performance. In this research, personal qualities and management skills were combined into a single construct, qualities-skills. Specifically, this research explored and argued the role of opportunity recognition skills as a mediator between qualities-skills and three measures of venture performance. Additionally, the research addressed the specific components of opportunity recognition skills that had the mediating effect. The study was carried out in Malaysia, a fast developing country in South-East Asia. A questionnaire was designed and sent to 1275 small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The results indicated the following: (1) opportunity recognition skills acted as a “pure” mediator, (2) opportunity recognition skills influenced the venture performance, (3) alertness mediated the relationship between personal qualities and venture performance, and (4) alertness and prior knowledge mediated the relationship between management skills and venture performance. Sales volume, sales growth, and stability in profit were used as measures of venture performance. Elsevier 2009-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40287/1/Impact%20of%20personal%20qualities%20and%20management%20skills%20of%20entrepreneurs%20on%20venture%20performance%20in%20Malaysia%20opportunity%20recognition%20skills%20as%20a%20mediating%20factor.pdf Sambasivan, Murali and Abdul, Mohani and Yusop, Yuzliani (2009) Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor. Technovation, 29 (11). pp. 798-805. ISSN 0166-4972; ESSN: 1879-2383 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497209000479 10.1016/j.technovation.2009.04.002
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description This research studied the role of personal qualities, management skills, and opportunity recognition skills of entrepreneurs in influencing the venture performance. In this research, personal qualities and management skills were combined into a single construct, qualities-skills. Specifically, this research explored and argued the role of opportunity recognition skills as a mediator between qualities-skills and three measures of venture performance. Additionally, the research addressed the specific components of opportunity recognition skills that had the mediating effect. The study was carried out in Malaysia, a fast developing country in South-East Asia. A questionnaire was designed and sent to 1275 small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The results indicated the following: (1) opportunity recognition skills acted as a “pure” mediator, (2) opportunity recognition skills influenced the venture performance, (3) alertness mediated the relationship between personal qualities and venture performance, and (4) alertness and prior knowledge mediated the relationship between management skills and venture performance. Sales volume, sales growth, and stability in profit were used as measures of venture performance.
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author Sambasivan, Murali
Abdul, Mohani
Yusop, Yuzliani
spellingShingle Sambasivan, Murali
Abdul, Mohani
Yusop, Yuzliani
Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor
author_facet Sambasivan, Murali
Abdul, Mohani
Yusop, Yuzliani
author_sort Sambasivan, Murali
title Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor
title_short Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor
title_full Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor
title_fullStr Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor
title_full_unstemmed Impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in Malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor
title_sort impact of personal qualities and management skills of entrepreneurs on venture performance in malaysia: opportunity recognition skills as a mediating factor
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2009
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