Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review
This paper reviews some important literature on small and medium scale enterpisies (SMEs) in Malaysia.It was observed that the focus of research on the SMEs was taken from four perspectives – management, finance, marketing and technology.Scholars have looked at issues of managing organizational reso...
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| author | Jaafar, Abdul Rahman Baharom, Nuraishani Sharif, Mohmad Yazam |
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| description | This paper reviews some important literature on small and medium scale enterpisies (SMEs) in Malaysia.It was observed that the focus of research on the SMEs was taken from four perspectives – management, finance, marketing and technology.Scholars have looked at issues of managing organizational resources such as human resources, internationalization, total quality management (TQM), technology management and information and communication technology (ICT).But less attention was given by them on issues relating to SME firm performance and firm effectiveness.These two issues are critical in a very special way as they affect the existence and continued survival of SME firms. |
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| spelling | uum-224432017-06-22T03:01:12Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22443/ Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review Jaafar, Abdul Rahman Baharom, Nuraishani Sharif, Mohmad Yazam HB Economic Theory This paper reviews some important literature on small and medium scale enterpisies (SMEs) in Malaysia.It was observed that the focus of research on the SMEs was taken from four perspectives – management, finance, marketing and technology.Scholars have looked at issues of managing organizational resources such as human resources, internationalization, total quality management (TQM), technology management and information and communication technology (ICT).But less attention was given by them on issues relating to SME firm performance and firm effectiveness.These two issues are critical in a very special way as they affect the existence and continued survival of SME firms. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22443/1/ICBM%202014%20217%20223.pdf Jaafar, Abdul Rahman and Baharom, Nuraishani and Sharif, Mohmad Yazam (2014) Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review. In: International Conference on Business Management (ICBM) 2014, 18-19 August 2014, Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| spellingShingle | HB Economic Theory Jaafar, Abdul Rahman Baharom, Nuraishani Sharif, Mohmad Yazam Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review |
| title | Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review |
| title_full | Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review |
| title_fullStr | Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review |
| title_short | Is research on SMEs in Malaysia an utter waste of time?: A literature review |
| title_sort | is research on smes in malaysia an utter waste of time a literature review |
| topic | HB Economic Theory |
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