Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia

This study empirically examined the role of stakeholders’ influence on social responsibility practices of small businesses in Malaysia, and analysed the importance and current attention of small firms to these stakeholder groups using the Importance-Performance Matrix Analysis (IPMA). Findings of th...

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Main Authors: Nejati, Mehran, Amran, Azlan, Ahmad, Noor Hazlina
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/29648/
http://eprints.usm.my/29648/1/UsePLS_2015_submission_21.pdf
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author Nejati, Mehran
Amran, Azlan
Ahmad, Noor Hazlina
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description This study empirically examined the role of stakeholders’ influence on social responsibility practices of small businesses in Malaysia, and analysed the importance and current attention of small firms to these stakeholder groups using the Importance-Performance Matrix Analysis (IPMA). Findings of this study revealed that community’s influence and customers’ influence had significant positive impact on the social responsibility practices of small firms. Moreover, the results of IPMA for the social responsibility construct indicated that community’s influence had the highest importance for small businesses and was given the highest level of attention by the firms. In contrast, customer’s influence was given lower attention by small firms despite its high level of importance for social responsibility practices of the firm.
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spelling usm-296482017-05-24T06:45:46Z http://eprints.usm.my/29648/ Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia Nejati, Mehran Amran, Azlan Ahmad, Noor Hazlina HF5001-6182 Business This study empirically examined the role of stakeholders’ influence on social responsibility practices of small businesses in Malaysia, and analysed the importance and current attention of small firms to these stakeholder groups using the Importance-Performance Matrix Analysis (IPMA). Findings of this study revealed that community’s influence and customers’ influence had significant positive impact on the social responsibility practices of small firms. Moreover, the results of IPMA for the social responsibility construct indicated that community’s influence had the highest importance for small businesses and was given the highest level of attention by the firms. In contrast, customer’s influence was given lower attention by small firms despite its high level of importance for social responsibility practices of the firm. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/29648/1/UsePLS_2015_submission_21.pdf Nejati, Mehran and Amran, Azlan and Ahmad, Noor Hazlina (2015) Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia. In: 2nd International Symposium on Partial Least Squares Path Modeling - The Conference for PLS Users, 16 June 2015 - 19 June 2015, Seville, Spain. (Submitted)
spellingShingle HF5001-6182 Business
Nejati, Mehran
Amran, Azlan
Ahmad, Noor Hazlina
Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia
title Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia
title_full Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia
title_fullStr Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia
title_short Stakeholder salience and social responsibility: Study of small businesses in Malaysia
title_sort stakeholder salience and social responsibility: study of small businesses in malaysia
topic HF5001-6182 Business
url http://eprints.usm.my/29648/
http://eprints.usm.my/29648/1/UsePLS_2015_submission_21.pdf