Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance Relations of Malaysian Bumiputera SMEs: The Impact of Some Perceived Environmental Factors
By A. Awang, Shaiful Annuar Khalid, Abdullah Yusof, Kamsol Mohamed Kassim, Mohammad Ismail, Rozihana Shekh Zain, Abdul Rashid Sintha Madar. 2009
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This study aims to verify direct relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance and the interaction of the perceived environment as third variable on EO-performance relation. The study was conducted on 210 firms among Bumiputera small and medium enterprises (BSMEs) in three states of northern Peninsular Malaysia, namely Penang, Kedah and Perlis. Using factor analysis and varimax rotation, each component was loaded with three items that has value of factor loadings more than .40. Factor analysis identified four factors of EO as independent variable namely, autonomy, innovativeness, proactiveness and risk taking dimensions. Perceived environmental factors consisted of five dimensions of munificence, turbulence, competition, market dynamism, and restrictiveness identified as moderators. Three dependent variables identified as return on sales (ROS) return on assets (ROA) and return on capital (ROC) used in the study. Four control variables of sole proprietorship; partnership, private limited company and small-sized firm were dummy-coded to ascertain their influence in performance. EO dimensions are multidimensional where each of the four dimensions is a separate component. Each of the components consists of three items. Hypothesis testing utilized four steps hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Four steps model shown in F-value and positive beta coefficient shows the statistical significance of direct relation and interaction effect. In the first step of the analysis, two control variables directly affected ROS. The second step of the analysis found direct relation of three EO dimensions related to higher performance. In the third step, all perceived environmental factors found directly related with performance. The fourth step detected interaction effect where significant model and beta coefficients further tested with post-hoc probing by curve analysis on 2x2 graphs. Perceived environmental factors moderated the relationship between EO and performance.
Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises of Hambantota District Sri Lanka (2010, background): “There is evidence that SMEs and their performance was importance to the owner/ managers as well as the policy makers and society, there is lack of knowledge on which entrepreneurial factors influence SMEs performance and how they influence the performance (Awang et al., 2009).”
- The effect of intrapreneurship on corporate performance (2012, background): “Research has only provided a very general knowledge, adopting sometimes contradictory principles (Dess et al. 1999), which is why the knowledge of the factors that influence business performance and how they do so is still limited (Awang et al., 2009).”