The relationship between women entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial capabilities toward entrepreneurial success / Rozaiyah Abd Rahman

Women’s entrepreneurship has been growing in recent years. Studies show that women entrepreneurs lead countries to economic development and growth. Greater incentives, such as growing the limited resources of skilled workers and technology have driven women alongside men into becoming entrepreneurs. Therefore, this study aims to explore the relationships between entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial success with entrepreneurial capabilities as a mediating factor for women entrepreneurs who are involved in the wholesale and retail industry in the Klang Valley. The quantitative data are collected using a self-administered questionnaire which is designed according to the research objectives to answer the research question: What is the relationship between women's entrepreneurial competencies with entrepreneurial capabilities as a mediating factor towards entrepreneurial success? A probability sampling method is used to draw the sample and data is collected using the self-administered survey. The survey conducted is distributed to women entrepreneurs in the wholesale and retail industry using an online survey. Data was collected using a questionnaire with a Liker scale from 1-5 from a sample of 115 women entrepreneurs who owned Small-Medium-Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia using a random sampling method. Collected data were analysed using structural equation modelling (SEM). This study has confirmed that there is a relationship between women’s entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial capabilities. Specifically, the entrepreneurial capabilities of Malaysian women can be directly linked to their level of success.