Hubungan pengantara orientasi keusahawanan terhadap kompetensi pengurusan dan persepsi sokongan organisasi dengan prestasi koperasi sekolah

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational management competency and perceived organizational support with school cooperative performance, in the Northern Malaysian Peninsular states. Despite current reports showing uninspiring performances of school cooperatives, studies in this area are still lacking. This study is underpinned by the resource-based view (RBV) theory for the purpose of clarifying the proposed conceptual framework. A total of 559 questionnaires were distributed to school cooperatives in the states of Perak, Kedah, Penang and Perlis via random clustered sampling and 191
questionnaires were returned with 184 responses found usable. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the direct relationships between organizational management competency, perceived organizational support, and entrepreneurial orientation with school cooperative performance. Meanwhile, multiple regression analysis was used to examine the combined effect of organizational management competency, perceived organizational support, and entrepreneurial orientation on school cooperative performance. To identify the mediating effect of entrepreneurial
orientation on the relationships between organizational management competency and perceived organizational support with school cooperative performance, hierarchical regression analysis was utilized. Study‟s findings indicated that organizational
management competency, perceived organizational support, and entrepreneurial orientation have positive and significant relationships with school cooperative performance. Investigation on the combined effect of the study‟s variables on school cooperative performance established that only perceived organizational support and entrepreneurial orientation showed their positive and significant effects. More importantly, this study has succeeded to evince the presence of mediating effects of entrepreneurial orientation on the relationships between organizational management competency and perceived organizational support with school cooperative performance. Finally, the study‟s limitations and implications as well as suggestions for future research are also discussed.