Unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation

Improvisation is currently considered to be novel in the business activity.Due to limited study on improvisation in Malaysian businesses, this paper aims to investigate the influence of environmental factors towards the organizational improvisation. Specifically, organizational resources which inc...

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Main Authors: Arshad, Darwina, Abu Bakar, Lily Julienti, Ahmad, Hartini, Hassan, Saifulhafizi
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22416/1/ICSSR%202015%20647%20655.pdf
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author Arshad, Darwina
Abu Bakar, Lily Julienti
Ahmad, Hartini
Hassan, Saifulhafizi
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description Improvisation is currently considered to be novel in the business activity.Due to limited study on improvisation in Malaysian businesses, this paper aims to investigate the influence of environmental factors towards the organizational improvisation. Specifically, organizational resources which include tangible and intangible resources as well as the external environmental factors in which comprise of market and technological turbulence and competitive intensity are the factors determined to influence organizational improvisation.By examining 106 small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in northern region Malaysia, we found that internal and external environmental factors were able to influence the organizational improvisation.This finding outlines that the SME entrepreneurs should highlight the substantial effect of external and internal factors which are able to influence the spontaneity and creativity in decision making and execution process in sustaining the firm performance.Theoretically and in practice, this study on improvisation in the business represents potentially rich addition to the vocabulary of entrepreneurial decisions and actions.
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spelling uum-224162017-06-22T01:58:18Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22416/ Unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation Arshad, Darwina Abu Bakar, Lily Julienti Ahmad, Hartini Hassan, Saifulhafizi GE Environmental Sciences HD28 Management. Industrial Management Improvisation is currently considered to be novel in the business activity.Due to limited study on improvisation in Malaysian businesses, this paper aims to investigate the influence of environmental factors towards the organizational improvisation. Specifically, organizational resources which include tangible and intangible resources as well as the external environmental factors in which comprise of market and technological turbulence and competitive intensity are the factors determined to influence organizational improvisation.By examining 106 small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in northern region Malaysia, we found that internal and external environmental factors were able to influence the organizational improvisation.This finding outlines that the SME entrepreneurs should highlight the substantial effect of external and internal factors which are able to influence the spontaneity and creativity in decision making and execution process in sustaining the firm performance.Theoretically and in practice, this study on improvisation in the business represents potentially rich addition to the vocabulary of entrepreneurial decisions and actions. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22416/1/ICSSR%202015%20647%20655.pdf Arshad, Darwina and Abu Bakar, Lily Julienti and Ahmad, Hartini and Hassan, Saifulhafizi (2015) Unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation. In: 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences Research, 08 - 09 June 2015, Melia Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Hassan, Saifulhafizi
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title Unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation
title_full Unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation
title_fullStr Unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation
title_full_unstemmed Unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation
title_short Unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation
title_sort unraveling the link between environmental factors and organizational improvisation
topic GE Environmental Sciences
HD28 Management. Industrial Management
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22416/1/ICSSR%202015%20647%20655.pdf
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