Open AccessSmall and medium sized enterprises: clustering and owner manager’s typology
Author(s) -
Chuong Minh Truong
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
khoa học công nghệ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1859-0128
DOI - 10.32508/stdj.v18i4.967
Subject(s) - typology , demographics , cluster analysis , business , set (abstract data type) , cluster (spacecraft) , knowledge management , big five personality traits , personality , marketing , psychology , computer science , sociology , artificial intelligence , social psychology , demography , anthropology , programming language
SMEs are established and managed by owner managers. Their personality traits, demographics impact the enterprise’s managerial system and performance. This study aims at clustering the SMEs to find out the clustering structure via these stated above factors, then, defining a set of criteria to recognize the owner managers’ typology and predicting the enterprise performance. Clustering method has been applied to analyze 240 enterprises into 3 clusters differentiating with each other basing on the personality traits, particularly, innovation, demographics, strategic management and organizational functional structure. These factors are encapsulated into a set of criteria for owner manager’ typology definition and prediction of the enterprise performance. Relations among these factors in each cluster were also recognized.