Determinants of small business performance run by women street vendors in Malaysia

The number of women street vendors has increased as they take up street vending as a means of survival and livelihood due to high unemployment rate levels and low barriers to entry. Nowadays, incomes earned within the informal sector, especially from micro-enterprise enterprises such as street vending, are meager and inconsistent. Generally, informal street vendors face four typical constraints: economic pressures, socio-cultural challenges, operational challenges, and adverse political conditions and policies. Purpose: To identify the influencing factors of hygienic practice, financial capability, entrepreneurial expertise, family obligation towards the performance of the small business run by women street vendors.