Authors : Mohamed Dahlan Ibrahim, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohd Nor Hakimin Yusoff and Tengku Mohd Azizuddin Tuan Mahmood
Abstract: The primary objective of this study is to develop and validate the instrument to measure entrepreneurial leadership among the low-income households in Kelantan, Malaysia. Present study attempts to answer the call of existing studies to explore the individual antecedents of entrepreneurial leadership and to examine the constructs of responsibility, accountability, analytical thinking and emotional intelligence as indicators and measures of entrepreneurial leadership. This study adopted a cross-sectional design and quantitative data was collected from 800 households from 4 Districts in Kelantan, Malaysia, through a structured interview. Based on the reliability and validity testing, this study finalized the instrument reducing a 27 items scale to 21 items yielding four factors, i.e., responsibility (five items), accountability (three items), analytical thinking (five items) and emotional intelligence (eight items). Findings of the reflective hierarchical model show that emotional intelligence is the highest contributor to entrepreneurial leadership among the low-income households in Kelantan, Malaysia, followed by responsibility, analytical thinking and accountability. It is recommended that future researchers continue the development of the instrument by cross-examining the instrument presented in this study across the different income level groups living in low-income as well as developed countries.
Mohamed Dahlan Ibrahim, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohd Nor Hakimin Yusoff and Tengku Mohd Azizuddin Tuan Mahmood, 2017. Validating the Instrument to Measure Entrepreneurial Leadership. International Business Management, 11: 1620-1628.