Examining the critical success factors of social enterprises in Malaysia

This is a conceptual paper to examine the critical success factors of Malaysian social enterprises based on the effect of structural factors and agency factors. Structural factors comprise of social economy, market type and relevant public policies while agency factors include the people, organization and finance stability. There has been relatively little research that examines the relationship between structural factors and agency factors, and the consequences on success of social enterprises in developing countries. This paper represents an attempt to do so from the context of Malaysian social enterprises