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: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/7566/1/Environmental_scanning.pdf
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author Othman, Roslina
Hamedon, Siti Rohimi
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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.
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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 Proceeding Paper 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
spellingShingle Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Othman, Roslina
Hamedon, Siti Rohimi
Environmental scanning practice of enterprise 50 Small Medium Enterprise (E50 SMEs) in Malaysia
title 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_short 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
topic Z665 Library Science. Information Science
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