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— The purpose of this paper is to make comparison in terms of social network between male and female Malay entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Social network is defined as interrelationship between the entrepreneurs and their contact (alter) in business venturing. However, there is limited understanding on how the entrepreneurs use their social network. Moreover, there is dearth attention given to investigate the social network in developing country especially in Malaysia. Both social network theory and structural perspective were employed in this quantitative-based study. The data gathered through the mail questionnaire method in which 93 are male and 72 female respondents representing 53 percent responded. Using t-test, the study reveals that there is no significance difference in terms of network size, network activity and network density for both genders. Implications and direction for further research are also presented. entrepreneurs in SME firms in Malaysia. The research tries to answer the question of: Do Malay male and female entrepreneurs have significant difference in terms of network size, network activity and network density? In addressing the above question, we make the following contributions. First, little attention given to study the social network in Malaysia, therefore this study shed light on the structural perspectives to spark the attention in understanding the social network phenomenon. Second, entrepreneurship scholars have failed to notice on how the social network is used and give the benefit to the firm (14). Therefore, we advance the research on the value of social network specifically on Malay entrepreneurs who struggle to survive in business in their mainland. Lastly, most of the social network-based research focuses on cause-and-effect of the network; however the current study employs the comparative study between male and female. We hope that the findings of this study will serve a benefit to the entrepreneurs especially for those who have an intention to start the business.

The Comparative Analysis of Gender and Social Network among Malay SMEs Entrepreneurs in Malaysia