IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aac/ijirss/v8y2025i1p1777-1788id4803.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Factors of failure of Moroccan micro-businesses: The case of community pharmacies

Author

Listed:
  • Reda Elafi
  • Youssef Jouali
  • Aumaima Wahbi

Abstract

This article aims to understand and analyze the determinants of the failure of community pharmacies in Morocco. This study adopts a quantitative method based on a questionnaire. Referring to previous academic research, it is hypothesized that failure is explained by three factors: the pharmacist's profile, the organizational characteristics of the company, and the company's environment. The authors of this study examine this hypothesis on a sample of 120 Moroccan pharmacies. The results obtained show that the human and social capital available to a community pharmacist contributes to improving the probability of failure of their business (gender, entrepreneurial environment, motivation). The environment in which the pharmacy is established also contributes to the failure of Moroccan pharmacies through entrepreneurial training and pharmacist support. As for organizational characteristics, it should be noted that there is a positive correlation between the size of the start-up capital and failure. Unfortunately, state support in this area is ineffective, particularly regarding investment subsidies and state coverage of part of salaries, except for exemptions from social security contributions. Anticipating factors that lead to the failure of pharmacies in Morocco.

Suggested Citation

  • Reda Elafi & Youssef Jouali & Aumaima Wahbi, 2025. "Factors of failure of Moroccan micro-businesses: The case of community pharmacies," International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies, Innovative Research Publishing, vol. 8(1), pages 1777-1788.
    • Handle: RePEc:aac:ijirss:v:8:y:2025:i:1:p:1777-1788:id:4803
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ijirss.com/index.php/ijirss/article/view/4803/720
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aac:ijirss:v:8:y:2025:i:1:p:1777-1788:id:4803. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Natalie Jean (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ijirss.com/index.php/ijirss/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.