Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Malaysia: Motivations and Challenges

Economic activities carried out by ethnic’ entrepreneurs and their enterprises could be a huge potential source of entrepreneurial and economic impetus for the perspective recipients’ countries. The benefits of having ethnic’ entrepreneurs in the host country such as physical capital investment, job creation for local workers and contributions towards the country’s GDP receive considerable recognition. Thus, this study was conducted with the express attention of adding to the existing theory of entrepreneurship literature relating to ethnic entrepreneurship. It attempt to have better understanding the motivations that motivate them to be an ethnic entrepreneurs and challenges that had been faced by the ethnic entrepreneurs in Malaysia. The qualitative method was utilized to this study. This study has conducted total five in-depth interviews of various ethnic entrepreneurs in Malaysia. To end with, this study summarized that, the participants are internal controls and an intrinsic reward. Other than that, money is the most pressing challenges faced by the ethnic entrepreneurs

کلیدواژه ها:

Challenges ، Ethnic ، Entrepreneurs ، Immigrant ، Malaysia ، Motivations