Proceedings of World Business Research Conference
21 - 23 April 2014, Novotel World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE, ISBN: 978-1-922069-48-1
Challenges and Constrains Faced by Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) in Al Batnah Governorate of Oman
Zaroug Osman Bilal and Nawal Said Al Mqbali
Although many studies have been conducted in this area in many countries,
there is still, a view studies on these enterprises have been done in Oman
concerning the obstacles and constrains.
The main purpose of this paper is to throw light on the challenges and
constraints faced by small and medium enterprise (SME) in Al Batniah
Governorate of Oman and try to give some suggestions to solve problems.
The data has been gathered through questionnaires from small and medium
enterprises in Al Batniah Governorate in Oman. The descriptive analysis has
been used to analyze the data, nonparametric testing, and analysis of variance.
After the data has been analyzed, the results show that obstacles and
constrains facing small and medium enterprises in Al Batniah Governorate
accordance to their importance are as follows: the investment environment
come fist
obstacles, the marketing obstacles come second, followed by
finance obstacles, capabilities of business owners, while the legislations and
regulations obstacles came last. Some of the recommendations have been
presented which call for more attention and concentration on solving the
obstacles facing SMEs in .
Keywords: SMEs, Challenges , Constrains ,Al Batnas, Oman
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Zaroug Osman Bilal, Assistant professor, College of commerce and Business Administration, Dhofar
University, Sultanate of Oman Email: zosman@du.edu.om.
Nawal Said Al Mqbali, Faculty of Business, Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman.
Email: nawalm@hotmail.com.
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