Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand
Background: Strategies to attract higher-yielding tourists will be complemented by measures to ensure that local communities benefit from increasing tourist spending.Therefore, it is important to understand factors that drive local entrepreneurs to become successful in their business.Self-efficacy i...
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| author | Mansor, Mohd Najib Othman, Abdul Rahim Abdul Manaf, Kamarul Bahrain Don, Mohd Sobri |
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| description | Background: Strategies to attract higher-yielding tourists will be complemented by measures to ensure that local communities benefit from increasing tourist spending.Therefore, it is important to understand factors that drive local entrepreneurs to become successful in their business.Self-efficacy is a concept used in the literature to measure one's belief in his ability to successfully venture into a business. Objective: This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneur demographic factors, environmental forces and entrepreneurial self-efficacy of small business operators at the border towns of Malaysia and Thailand.The research is a cross-sectional study and a survey method is used. Results: Our result reveals that nationality has a significant relationship with entrepreneurial self-efficacy. With regard to the environmental forces, there is also a positive relationship between intensity of competition and entrepreneurial self-efficacy.Conclusion: Our result on environmental forces is not consistent with those studies conducted in western countries. It seems that the small business operators at border town of Malaysia and Thailand have the same belief which is different from those in western countries. |
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| spelling | my.uum.repo-187082016-10-03T08:16:41Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18708/ Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand Mansor, Mohd Najib Othman, Abdul Rahim Abdul Manaf, Kamarul Bahrain Don, Mohd Sobri GV Recreation Leisure Background: Strategies to attract higher-yielding tourists will be complemented by measures to ensure that local communities benefit from increasing tourist spending.Therefore, it is important to understand factors that drive local entrepreneurs to become successful in their business.Self-efficacy is a concept used in the literature to measure one's belief in his ability to successfully venture into a business. Objective: This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneur demographic factors, environmental forces and entrepreneurial self-efficacy of small business operators at the border towns of Malaysia and Thailand.The research is a cross-sectional study and a survey method is used. Results: Our result reveals that nationality has a significant relationship with entrepreneurial self-efficacy. With regard to the environmental forces, there is also a positive relationship between intensity of competition and entrepreneurial self-efficacy.Conclusion: Our result on environmental forces is not consistent with those studies conducted in western countries. It seems that the small business operators at border town of Malaysia and Thailand have the same belief which is different from those in western countries. INSInet Publications 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18708/1/AJBAS%20%209%2017%202015%2054-59.pdf Mansor, Mohd Najib and Othman, Abdul Rahim and Abdul Manaf, Kamarul Bahrain and Don, Mohd Sobri (2015) Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 9 (17 S). pp. 54-59. ISSN 1991-8178 http://www.ajbasweb.com/old/ajbas/2015/Special%20IPN%20Phuket/54-59.pdf |
| spellingShingle | GV Recreation Leisure Mansor, Mohd Najib Othman, Abdul Rahim Abdul Manaf, Kamarul Bahrain Don, Mohd Sobri Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand |
| title | Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand |
| title_full | Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand |
| title_fullStr | Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand |
| title_full_unstemmed | Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand |
| title_short | Border tourism: Factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in Northern Malaysia and Southern Thailand |
| title_sort | border tourism: factors affecting self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in northern malaysia and southern thailand |
| topic | GV Recreation Leisure |
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