IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/prbchp/978-981-96-4116-1_70.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Entrepreneurial Orientation, Social Supports, and Resiliency of Persons with Disabilities in Malaysia

Author

Listed:
  • Junainah Junid

    (Universiti Teknologi MARA)

  • Rohana Ngah

    (Universiti Teknologi MARA)

  • Mohd Ali Bahari Abdul Kadir

    (Universiti Teknologi MARA)

  • Hasni Abdullah

    (Universiti Teknologi MARA)

  • Natiara Mohamad Hashim

    (Universiti Teknologi MARA)

Abstract

The study aims to explore the entrepreneurial orientation of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) toward entrepreneurial resilience, focusing on the role of social factors in Malaysia. Entrepreneurship resiliency is essential for entrepreneurs to navigate challenges and uncertainties effectively. Persons with Disabilities often face social discrimination due to their disabilities. Many PWDs have turned to entrepreneurship to improve their economic status. However, the success rate still needs to improve, raising concerns about how social support influences their resiliency in entrepreneurship. While most studies of entrepreneurial resilience focus on firm, this study is pioneer in promoting individual entrepreneurial resilience. A purposive sampling method was utilized to recruit respondents. A total of 77 respondents of PWDs with physical disabilities took part in the survey. Structural equation modeling of Partial Least Square was utilized to analyze the data, confirm the relationship between variables, and provide insights on indirect relationships. Findings show that entrepreneurial orientation significantly impacts entrepreneurial resilience through proactive, innovative, and risk-taking. The social support of family and friends plays a crucial role in building PWDs’ entrepreneurship resiliency, highlighting the need for a more empathetic and supportive approach toward PWDs in the entrepreneurial space. Furthermore, social support enhances the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and resiliency, providing valuable information about PWDs. Internally, PWDs are inclined to pursue entrepreneurship, but with support from family and friends, they can face challenges in entrepreneurship. This study’s findings are significant as they contribute to the knowledge of entrepreneurship among marginalized communities, providing a deeper understanding of their resiliency despite their disabilities and enlightening the concerns.

Suggested Citation

  • Junainah Junid & Rohana Ngah & Mohd Ali Bahari Abdul Kadir & Hasni Abdullah & Natiara Mohamad Hashim, 2025. "Entrepreneurial Orientation, Social Supports, and Resiliency of Persons with Disabilities in Malaysia," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-981-96-4116-1_70
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-4116-1_70
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    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:spr:prbchp:978-981-96-4116-1_70. 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: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    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.