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Factors of Sustainable Firm Performance and the Mediating Role of Strategic Opportunity Recognition: A Conceptual Study

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  • Kean Lip Teh
  • Sazali Bin Abdul Wahab
  • Suzana Idayu Wati Osman
  • Ahmad Shaharudin Abdul Latiff
  • Nur Fadiah Mohd Zawawi
  • Syed Ali Fazal

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The significant role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in economic development has been acknowledged and focused for a very long time. They dominate the business establishment around the world. The current challenging and volatile business landscape has called for greater scrutiny to identify survival toolkit for SMEs, given that SMEs are very much important to the dramatic economic changes. Thus, understanding practices that may damage business success is needed urgently. With this crucial and critical situation, it is the time now to identify an alternative approach to understand practices that lead to business success. The purpose of this study is to concentrate on the influence of strategic entrepreneurship (SE) which is manifested in exploration activities only that in-turn represented by strategic opportunity recognition construct, on sustainable SMEs performance in Malaysia. This paper is an attempt to address this challenge by developing a framework for the assessment of recognizing the important role of SE in efficiently contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Firm Performance.

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  • Kean Lip Teh & Sazali Bin Abdul Wahab & Suzana Idayu Wati Osman & Ahmad Shaharudin Abdul Latiff & Nur Fadiah Mohd Zawawi & Syed Ali Fazal, 2018. "Factors of Sustainable Firm Performance and the Mediating Role of Strategic Opportunity Recognition: A Conceptual Study," International Journal of Asian Social Science, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 8(11), pages 1048-1058.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:ijoass:v:8:y:2018:i:11:p:1048-1058:id:3067
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