Authors : Wendy Ming-Yen Teoh, Chin Wei Chong, Yee Yen Yuen and Hishamuddin Ismail
Abstract: In today’s market place there are many dual-income families involving women entrepreneurs that experience the impacts of Work-Family Conflict (WFC) which presents both positive and negative consequences to women entrepreneurs especially towards their jobs. Hence, women entrepreneurs have to strike a delicate balance between career and family to sustain their businesses and deal with rising implications in society. This study presents a proposed framework primarily based on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, illustrating how certain identified predictors can contribute to the current knowledge of Malaysian women entrepreneurs, with particular reference to WFC. The proposed framework of this study will give new significant insights to the parties involved (i.e., policy makers, ministries and agencies, academicians and women entrepreneurs) on the human capital and business development in Malaysia and serves as a reference point for literature and theoretical development in future. It will also helps the government to achieve the key strategic objectives of 11th Malaysia plan by providing recommendations to assist all levels of women in their career developments, enabling Malaysia to emerge as a high-income nation by 2020.
Wendy Ming-Yen Teoh, Chin Wei Chong, Yee Yen Yuen and Hishamuddin Ismail, 2017. Juggling Work and Family Life: Developing a Framework for Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 1225-1230.