Full Description
Despite being the third largest economy in Southeast Asia, Malaysian entrepreneurial activity is under-reported in the scholarly literature. This book extends such research by examining the impact of entrepreneurship on its economy and evaluating the existing systemic problems. The Malaysian economy has benefited from the density of knowledge-based businesses and utilization of the latest technologies in the manufacturing and digital economies. However, Malaysia faces ongoing challenges, namely concentration of wealth in the city, high regional unemployment and workplace gender inequality. In regional areas, there is an over-reliance on agriculture and necessity based entrepreneurship. Consequently, entrepreneurial activity has been encouraged with the creation of eco-systems, seed corn funding and provision of entrepreneurship education to offer entrepreneurial career choices.
Providing recommendations and best practice for driving entrepreneurshipand entrepreneurial behaviours, this contributed volume presents the first opportunity to reflect on both the success stories and systemic problems related to effective entrepreneurial behaviour in a South East Asian context.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Entrepreneurial activity in Malaysia: A Country level perspective.- Chapter 2. An Overview of Entrepreneurship in Malaysia.- Chapter 3. Proximity, Collaborative Relationship and Entrepreneur's Knowledge Spill-Over Opportunity in a Malaysian Regional Innovation System.- Chapter 4. Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 5. The Role of Government and Higher Education in Developing Social Entrepreneurship in Malaysia.- Chapter 6. Social Entrepreneurship: Policies and Practice in Malaysia.- Chapter 7. From Producer to Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurial Learning Process of Smallholders in Sabah.- Chapter 8. Exploring SME Women Entrepreneurs' Work-Family Conflict in Malaysia.- Chapter 9. Barriers and Facilitators in Applying Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Owned by Graduate Entrepreneurs in Malaysia.
