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Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Malaysia

Sustainable entrepreneurship has brought many changes to the business world. Among them, businesses nowadays are required to integrate sustainability management into their business activities. Although sustainable entrepreneurship has been regarded as a vital concept in rectifying environmental an...

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Main Authors: KOE, WEI LOON, Abdul Majid, Izaidin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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H Social Sciences (General)
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spelling my.utem.eprints.123512015-05-28T04:24:12Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/12351/ Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Malaysia KOE, WEI LOON Abdul Majid, Izaidin H Social Sciences (General) Sustainable entrepreneurship has brought many changes to the business world. Among them, businesses nowadays are required to integrate sustainability management into their business activities. Although sustainable entrepreneurship has been regarded as a vital concept in rectifying environmental and social problems through entrepreneurial activities, there remain scant studies. This preliminary study was geared towards examining the extent of sustainable practices among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of various characteristics in Malaysia. The descriptive analyses revealed that SMEs were quite positive towards sustainable practices in which more than half of the SMEs were having plans for it. However, the actual embarkation on sustainability among SMEs was less embracing. It also found that female business owners were slightly keener to sustainable management than males. In addition, manufacturing firms, corporations, small-size enterprises and firms with five to ten years of history were more prompted to exercise sustainable practices than the others. As such, more efforts are definitely needed from various parties to promote sustainable entrepreneurship among SMEs to ensure equal economic, social and environmental gains. 2013-12-07 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/12351/1/KOE_W.L.pdf KOE, WEI LOON and Abdul Majid, Izaidin (2013) Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Malaysia. In: National Research & Innovation Conference for Graduate Students in Social Sciences , 7-9 December 2012, Mahkota Hotel, Melaka.
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KOE, WEI LOON
Abdul Majid, Izaidin
Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Malaysia
description Sustainable entrepreneurship has brought many changes to the business world. Among them, businesses nowadays are required to integrate sustainability management into their business activities. Although sustainable entrepreneurship has been regarded as a vital concept in rectifying environmental and social problems through entrepreneurial activities, there remain scant studies. This preliminary study was geared towards examining the extent of sustainable practices among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of various characteristics in Malaysia. The descriptive analyses revealed that SMEs were quite positive towards sustainable practices in which more than half of the SMEs were having plans for it. However, the actual embarkation on sustainability among SMEs was less embracing. It also found that female business owners were slightly keener to sustainable management than males. In addition, manufacturing firms, corporations, small-size enterprises and firms with five to ten years of history were more prompted to exercise sustainable practices than the others. As such, more efforts are definitely needed from various parties to promote sustainable entrepreneurship among SMEs to ensure equal economic, social and environmental gains.
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author KOE, WEI LOON
Abdul Majid, Izaidin
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title Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Malaysia
title_short Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Malaysia
title_full Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Malaysia
title_fullStr Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in Malaysia
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