Open AccessCAPACITY BUILDING NEEDS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM CONTRACTING ENTERPRISES IN KLANG VALLEY MALAYSIA
Author(s) -
Wah Peng Lee,
Tien-Choon Toh,
Yoke-Lian Lew,
Sin-Huai Khor,
Kai-Chen Goh,
Hun Chuen Gui,
Nadzirah Zainordin,
Chia Kuang Lee
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of industrial management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0127-564X
pISSN - 2289-9286
DOI - 10.15282/ijim.6.0.2020.5635
Subject(s) - business , profit (economics) , scale (ratio) , small and medium sized enterprises , government (linguistics) , small business , identification (biology) , marketing , finance , economics , linguistics , philosophy , physics , botany , quantum mechanics , biology , microeconomics
This study investigates the issues constraining the growth of small and medium-scale contracting firms, which can, in turn, reflect the small and medium-scale contractors’ needs that are corresponding to the needs or supports required by small and medium-scale contractors. The purpose of this study is to help SMCEs realise their own needs and also to assist government and policymakers to discover the approaches that should be executed and allocate scarce resources to the critical parts through needs identification and appraisal. A closed-ended questionnaire survey was deployed and the responses collected only reflect the construction players that are currently working in CIDB registered Grade 1 to Grade 6 contracting enterprises in the Klang Valley area. Five critical needs were identified through factor analysis. They are technical and technological needs, job accessibility needs, favourable fiscal and monetary policy needs, business development needs, and anti-corruption needs. Besides, this study reveals that the success of SMCEs can be perceived in the aspects of their business growth, profit growth and employment growth. Research studies on this topic are limited in the Malaysian construction industry. Therefore, this study provides guidance and references for SMCEs and policymakers concerning the capacity building needs and how their successes can be achieved so that SMCEs can be assisted in a way that they are capable to build their capabilities in today’s construction sector in Malaysia.