<![CDATA[Most people think of business growth as an important goal. Business growth is a key indicator of a company’s success and a major source of new wealth, jobs, and economic growth in every country in the world. However, not many SME owners want to grow their businesses, and it’s not always clear what the entrepreneur’s plans for growth are after the business starts up. This study wants to find out what makes businesses want to grow and how that affects the growth of their small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study found that the desire to grow a business is affected by several psychological and socio-demographic factors. Several personal traits, like emotional intelligence, willingness to take risks, need for achievement, motivation, and self-efficacy, play a big role in a person’s purpose to grow as an entrepreneur at the 5% level. Strategic, management, process, and digital skills affect the desire to grow more than education does. This study also shows that a company’s plans for growth are linked to its real growth in North Kalimantan and East Kalimantan in terms of sales growth and asset growth.]]>
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