Obstacles to the development of small enterprises in Libya

"دراسة تطبيقية من وجهة نظر أعضاء هيئة التدريس بكلية الاقتصاد- جامعة اجدابيا"

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the obstacles (factors) that hinder the development of small enterprises in Libya from the viewpoint of the faculty members of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the University of Ajdabiya And to achieve the goal of the study, the latter has adopted the deductive inductive approach by identifying the obstacles (independent variables) and extrapolating them from the literature of the study in general and from the results of previous studies of relevance in particular. The questionnaire has been relied upon as a main tool for all the study data, and the study used the statistical methods represented in the arithmetic means, standard deviation and frequency ratios, as well as the t-test and ANOVA analysis of variance in analyzing the study data and testing its hypotheses, The study reached several results, the most important of which is the existence of organizational, human, financial and marketing obstacles that prevent the development of small enterprises in Libya. The study also recommended the necessity of facilitating the procedures for establishing small projects and working on separating management from ownership, as well as working on sponsoring and encouraging talented and creative people in the field of small projects, as well as supporting small projects with modern administrative and financial systems and working on training small business owners and raising their technical and professional expertise. As well as working on studying the market to determine the extent to which it absorbs the entire supply of offered goods and services, paying attention to marketing research and studying consumer behavior, as well as paying attention to product quality design for small enterprises.