Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study

Achieving success is a highly critical issue for the small size construction firms in order to survive and grow in competitive and hostile business environments. There has been little research directed toward understanding how small and medium entreprises specifically the construction industry could...

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Main Authors: Puteri Fadzline, Tamyez, Nazaruddin, Ishal, Juhary, Ali
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Published: IRMM 2016
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spelling ump-212572018-06-20T23:45:41Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21257/ Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study Puteri Fadzline, Tamyez Nazaruddin, Ishal Juhary, Ali H Social Sciences (General) Achieving success is a highly critical issue for the small size construction firms in order to survive and grow in competitive and hostile business environments. There has been little research directed toward understanding how small and medium entreprises specifically the construction industry could systematically achieve entrepreneurial success with a synergy of competency and network. The objective of this research was to analyze the effects of entrepreneurial competency and entrepreneurial networks on small sized construction firms in Malaysia. Through in-depth interviews, salient dimensions of the competencies emerged. Entrepreneurial competency can be categorized as personal competency, strategic management competency, learning competency, opportunity competency, social network and inter-organization network as main themes. In addition, social and inter-organizational networks pursue to a better success as compared to firms that own business networks. Therefore this creates a new contribution by establishing a framework on research concepts and proposes a model of integration between these constructs and their relationships. IRMM 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21257/1/qualitative%20uncle.pdf Puteri Fadzline, Tamyez and Nazaruddin, Ishal and Juhary, Ali (2016) Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study. International Review of Management and Marketing, 6 (8). pp. 315-321. ISSN 2146-4405 https://www.econjournals.com/index.php/irmm/article/view/5681
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Puteri Fadzline, Tamyez
Nazaruddin, Ishal
Juhary, Ali
Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study
description Achieving success is a highly critical issue for the small size construction firms in order to survive and grow in competitive and hostile business environments. There has been little research directed toward understanding how small and medium entreprises specifically the construction industry could systematically achieve entrepreneurial success with a synergy of competency and network. The objective of this research was to analyze the effects of entrepreneurial competency and entrepreneurial networks on small sized construction firms in Malaysia. Through in-depth interviews, salient dimensions of the competencies emerged. Entrepreneurial competency can be categorized as personal competency, strategic management competency, learning competency, opportunity competency, social network and inter-organization network as main themes. In addition, social and inter-organizational networks pursue to a better success as compared to firms that own business networks. Therefore this creates a new contribution by establishing a framework on research concepts and proposes a model of integration between these constructs and their relationships.
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author Puteri Fadzline, Tamyez
Nazaruddin, Ishal
Juhary, Ali
author_facet Puteri Fadzline, Tamyez
Nazaruddin, Ishal
Juhary, Ali
author_sort Puteri Fadzline, Tamyez
title Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study
title_short Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study
title_full Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study
title_fullStr Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurial Competencies and Networks: A Qualitative Study
title_sort entrepreneurial competencies and networks: a qualitative study
publisher IRMM
publishDate 2016
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21257/
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21257/1/qualitative%20uncle.pdf
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