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Organizational Support and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Performance of SMEs, the Moderating Role of Strategic Sustainability Orientation

In: Sustainable Organizations - Models, Applications, and New Perspectives

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  • Muhammad Auwal Abdullahi
  • Zainalabidin Mohamed
  • Mad Nasir Shamsudin
  • Juwaidah Sharifuddin
  • Fazlin Ali

Abstract

Small and medium sized enterprises' (SMEs) activities have contributed significantly to environmental degradation that causes a disastrous effect on us and our future generation. Considering this, sustainable entrepreneurship has been promoted as a resolution of ecological problems capable of addressing climate change issues, public health, and safety concerns, and has become critical for competing in international markets. SMEs activities increased pollution exclusively causing environmental degradation. In response, the world is focusing on ensuring that SMEs produce products through safe and environmentally friendly practices. Literature suggests that organizational support provide SMEs with the impetus to achieve competitive advantage regarding turnover, customer attraction and market share opportunities to achieve business performance. Nonetheless, the implementation of sustainable entrepreneurship among them is still low due to numerous challenges. This paper intends to investigate the influence of organizational support on sustainable entrepreneurship towards performance among SMEs. A case study involving 300 herbal-based SMEs were surveyed using structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation model. The results show that organizational support have a positive effect on sustainable entrepreneurship and performance among the SMEs, accounting for 52% and 47% variance respectively. This finding reveals that organizational support is significantly related to entrepreneurship performance, thus substantiates previous findings on the crucial roles of organizational support in enabling organizations to achieve sustainable entrepreneurship performance. This study contributes to triple bottom line literature based on incorporation of strategic choice theory, strategic sustainability orientation and resource-based view theory in entrepreneurship framework.

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  • Muhammad Auwal Abdullahi & Zainalabidin Mohamed & Mad Nasir Shamsudin & Juwaidah Sharifuddin & Fazlin Ali, 2021. "Organizational Support and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Performance of SMEs, the Moderating Role of Strategic Sustainability Orientation," Chapters, in: Jose C. Sanchez-Garcia & Brizeida Hernandez-Sanchez (ed.), Sustainable Organizations - Models, Applications, and New Perspectives, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:214089
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.93803
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    Keywords

    entrepreneurship; organizational support; performance; SMEs; strategic sustainability orientation;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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