A little bit about us

Good afternoon everyone.

First of all, let me introduce my team members. Our team consists of Siti Hajar on your left side, Afifah (Me) followed by Nurul Najwa and Nurul Natasha. Dr. Ilham Sentosa is our lecturer for Human Capital Management (HCM) subject asked us to use Blogspot as our media to present. We do not have to print all the project into papers as in we can save our trees. If you want to know, 1 ton of papers is equal to 17 trees. So save trees! And no papers! :') We all major in Accounting in University Kuala Lumpur Business School which is located in Persiaran Gurney, Kuala Lumpur. 

Our duty is we have to upload all the journals, framework that how women can be succeed in their business. The title for this project is Competency of Women Entrepreneurs. 

Journals

All links that we attached are all about competency of women entrepreneurs. In journals, we can know that various type of competencies that describing women succeed in their businesses.

1. Journal of Competency of Woman Entrepreneur

The objective of this research is to develop a model of successful Malaysian women entrepreneurs. The qualitative in-depth interview research technique was used in this study. A total of 11 successful Malaysian women entrepreneurs of diverse ethnic origins which included the Bumiputeras, Chinese and Indians were selected for this study. The major findings of this study showed that the factors which contributed to the success of the women entrepreneurs included individual factors, organisation and the environment. In addition, the element of interest and a strong sense of passion towards their entrepreneurial career, their bravery in undertaking risk, self-confidence and positive attitude were the most important factors that had played an important influence on the success of women entrepreneurs. 

2. Journal of Competency of Woman Entrepreneur

The model comprises women skills development, access to micro finance self-employment, entrepreneurial ventures and sustainability in general and specific to rural communities. The factors that motivate women correlated to entrepreneurial cognition are also discussed. The characteristics of bootstrapping and the allied problems of the women cadre in startup are the focus of the paper. The paper also reviews the problems faced by fresh graduates in medicine, management as aspiring entrepreneurs and their likely role in rural health care.

3. Journal of Competency of Woman Entrepreneur

This study examines the impact of women entrepreneurs on economic growth in Benue State, North Central Nigeria. In order to help the women entrepreneurs overcome their operational hardships in Benue State, it is recommended among others: capacity building programmed on entrepreneurship education, provision of effective and realistic support services for women entrepreneurs, promoting of gender neutral environment in all policy measures to help women entrepreneurs impact significantly on economic growth

4. Journal of Competency of Woman Entrepreneur

A number of factors have been suggested to explain how the success among women entrepreneurs can be improved. To date, some factors have been considered to influence the success of women entrepreneurs such as human capital, networking, financial aids, and opportunity. Despite these studies, entrepreneurial characteristics have been suggested to be studied in order to determine the success among women entrepreneurs

5. Journal of Competency of Women Entrepreneurs

The objective of this study is to review theoretical models that determine women entrepreneurial motivation. Theoretical models are used as platforms that can motivate women into entrepreneurship. However, this study is limited based on the information available when the research was carried out. Further research could look at the effect of the entrepreneurship education on women entrepreneurial activities. This paper recommends a study of entrepreneurship models as catalyst for women who want to start their own business so as to know the factors that can encourage and facilitate their performance. This will help to influence more women towards entrepreneurship. The study makes theoretical contribution by focusing on the research area that has received less attention especially in the context of the topic.

   

You can open link above and read all the information and it also can be your reference for your project or subject.

5 Successful Asian Entrepreneurs

Yasmin Rasid, Malaysia 

Yasmin is a biologist by profession and environmentalist by passion. With a B.Sc in Biology and Religion from Duke, and a M.Sc from University Malaya (Biotechnology). Yasmin later formed and founded EcoKnights. Yasmin is also a lecturer at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and University of Malaya, teaching a course on environmental management and philosophy of the environment to first and second year students.EcoKnights is a non-profit environmental organization that champions sustainable living and supports a community of film makers, and environmentalist who embody diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision.She aims to create awareness on environmental issues using films and videos. Through EcoKnights, the International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival (KLEFF) was birthed in 2008, reaching out to some 80,000 Malaysians through its environmental-focused film screenings and programmes throughout West Malaysia. Yasmin also helms the Malaysian Environmental NGO (MENGO), which is focused in empowering young minds, and dabbles in aquaponics projects in her free time. EcoKnights was recently awarded for their social innovation in the sphere of community development and social impact at the Malaysia Business Awards 2017 organized by the Kuala Lumpur Malay Chamber of Commerce. EcoKnights, a not-for-profit environmental organisation in collaboration with Publika and MAPFest presents the Eco Month Green Market commencing this March 2017 at Publika Shopping Gallery, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur. Launched last November (2016), EcoKnights’ Garbage to Garden program has been a great success. Since August 2016, EcoKnights has been very fortunate to be on board with a research team consisting of Waseda University Japan and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), under the Waseda-Bridge Programme. 

Choo Yilin, Singapore 

Choo Yilin is a multiple international award-winning jewellery label seeking to fuse sustainability with luxury; using jewellery design to communicate important social, environmental and cultural messages.The label has been featured regularly in local and international press, including the UK's Financial Times' How To Spend It. The Choo Yilin clientele is the discerning modern women with an eye for quality and finer details. her approach to aesthetics is tasteful yet sophisticated-with an appreciation of classic style, oriental elements and keepsake creations that transcends passing treands and fads. Choo Yilin has been selected to present its work at Paris Fashion Week multiple times. 

Veronika Linardi, Indonesia

Veronika Linardi  is a co-founded Qerja.com and serve as its Chief Executive Officer. Qerja is Indonesia's first online community for empowering professionals to make the best decision regarding their careers. By creating a platform for professionals to share knowledge, salary and experiences, Qerja introduces transparency to an otherwise opaque working environment. Qerja received an 8 digit valuation series, a funding from SoftBank Indosat fund within 8 months of operation. Veronika also founded Linardi Associates, an executive recruitment agency that has helped hundreds of multinational and local conglomerates fulfill their talent requirements, and Jobs.

Patricia Mei Long Lim, Thailand

Patricia ML Lim is a young entrepreneur, highly low profile, ambitious, business oriented woman. She is the owner and founder of Thailand's upcoming hotel's chain Privi Hotel Group. She is a self-made, low profile businesswoman and just at the age of 25 her personal estimated net worth is 1 Billion Thai Baht and it is solely from the hotels asset alone. Her family runs a bird nest manufacturing business, which is one of the largest in Southeast Asia. Gaining fame day by day, she is right there along the top business women of Thailand.

Patricia, an ideal representative for the younger generation of entrepreneurs, completed her post-graduation from the Swiss Hotel Management School, Switzerland. Privi Hotel Group plans to come up with another 11 hotels very soon. The group has recently been on a major land purchasing spree for its proposed hotels across Thailand.

 

Thuy Thanh Truong, Vietnam

Thuy is an award-winning global serial entrepreneur with 9 years experience in marketing, building products, growing and scaling business. She's the intersection of technology, business development and product visions. Co-Founded Parallel Frozen Yogurt, the trendsetter for Vietnamese premium frozen yogurt - broke the record of 3000+ customers on the grand opening day.

She is also the Co-Founded of GreenGar, the bootstrapping mobile start-up with 10 members from Ho Chi Minh City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, achieved 15 million downloads and $1MM in revenue, in charge of user acquisition, growth strategy and fund raising. Besides she also a Co-Founded Tappy, a stealth mode mobile startup that backed by notable angel investors and 500 Startups, focus on solving problem of connecting people.

A review of theoretical and conceptual framework

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This model can be useful for providing insights and inputs for the entrepreneurial development agencies and other government policy makers pertaining who are keen to further develop entrepreneurship especially amongst the women folks.

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The framework describe that entrepreneurial skills and access to micro finance leads to productive entrepreneurship ventures by women cadre. The education, skills and access to micro finance leads to reduction in transitory and chronic poverty in rural perspective. The basic health education and access to micro finance leads to women empowerment and reduction in maternal mortality rate in rural perspective.

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Wennekers and Thurik established this model relating to to entrepreneurial activity to economic growth. The model distinguishes between three levels of analysis; the individual level, the firm level and the macro level. On individual level, women entrepreneurs using psychological endowments to improve their attitudes, skills and actions. By doing this concept, they can achieve their target and able to increase their business in international arena. 

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Based on previous literature, entrepreneurial success also discussed in several terms such as venture performance, business success, entrepreneur performance, venture survival and venture growth. Many women has described success subjectively such as the freedom to choose daily activity, ability to balance between work and family, contribution to the community, reputation, children and the quality of life that they achieve. Most of women entrepreneurs as well recognized the success if and only they able to achieve a balance between the roles in business and family due to the multiple roles and the difficulties in handling both roles at the same time.

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This model reported that the factors that could either encourage or discourage women entrepreneurship are financial, environmental, psychological and sociological factors. Women entrepreneurial motivation is a combination of these factors (economical, social, psychological and environmental) and a willingness on the part women to start an entrepreneurial venture.

Financial factors, may include lack of adequate finance, disincentives of tax system, inhibiting effects of red tape and regulations, failure in implementation of the policy that discriminate in favour or small firms, lack of previous experience in the financial arena, lack of self-confidence in presenting business plans, etc. Environmental factors include availability of venture capital, presence of experience entrepreneurs, technically skilled labour force, accessibility of suppliers, accessibility of customers or new markets, government influences, availability of land or facilities, accessibility of transportation, new technological developments, availability of supporting services and living condition, developmental condition of local communities. 

Psychological factors may include ability and propensity to risk into enterprise, internal locus of control, need for achievement, proactiveness and others. Sociological factors include; family influence, role model, role of women in the society and others.

     

Let's be an ENTREPRENEUR!!!!!!

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