Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia

This study investigates the effects of organizational and owner/ manager profile on environmental scanning practice of Enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia. It investigates the extent of environmental scanning practice and the factors related to information sources that E50 S...

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Main Authors:	Othman, Roslina, Hamedon, Siti Rohimi
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/1/Environmental_scanning.pdf

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spelling	iium-75662011-11-21T12:44:54Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/ Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia Othman, Roslina Hamedon, Siti Rohimi Z665 Library Science. Information Science This study investigates the effects of organizational and owner/ manager profile on environmental scanning practice of Enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia. It investigates the extent of environmental scanning practice and the factors related to information sources that E50 SMEs utilized for environmental scanning. Based on the constructs of the measures, a research scale was developed for the study and data were collected via self-administered mail survey among the E50 SMEs in Malaysia. The results showed positive effects of organizational and owner/ manager profile on environmental scanning practice of E50 SMEs. There are also findings on the extent environmental scanning on the business environment sectors of E50 SMEs with respect to utilization of information sources. Implications of our findings for SMEs owner/ managers and practitioners, the study’s limitations and future research directions are subsequently addressed. 2011-09 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/1/Environmental_scanning.pdf Othman, Roslina and Hamedon, Siti Rohimi (2011) Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia. In: 5th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2011), 8-9 September 2011, Como, Italy. http://academic-conferences.org/ecime/ecime2011/ecime11-home.htm
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description	This study investigates the effects of organizational and owner/ manager profile on environmental scanning practice of Enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia. It investigates the extent of environmental scanning practice and the factors related to information sources that E50 SMEs utilized for environmental scanning. Based on the constructs of the measures, a research scale was developed for the study and data were collected via self-administered mail survey among the E50 SMEs in Malaysia. The results showed positive effects of organizational and owner/ manager profile on environmental scanning practice of E50 SMEs. There are also findings on the extent environmental scanning on the business environment sectors of E50 SMEs with respect to utilization of information sources. Implications of our findings for SMEs owner/ managers and practitioners, the study’s limitations and future research directions are subsequently addressed.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Othman, Roslina Hamedon, Siti Rohimi
author_facet	Othman, Roslina Hamedon, Siti Rohimi
author_sort	Othman, Roslina
title	Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia
title_short	Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia
title_full	Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia
title_sort	environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 small medium enterprise (e50 smes) in malaysia
publishDate	2011
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/1/Environmental_scanning.pdf
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Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia

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