Social Media as a Factor for Promoting Entrepreneurship - the Middle East & Oman Scenario

Baby Sam Samuel; Joe Sarprasatha

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Social Media as a Factor for Promoting Entrepreneurship - the Middle East & Oman Scenario

Baby Sam Samuel, Joe Sarprasatha

Published in International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 5)

Received: 10 September 2015 Accepted: 25 September 2015 Published: 8 October 2015

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This study is focusing on to establish the Social Media as a factor for promoting entrepreneurship in Oman & the Middle East region. This was done by social media in general public as well as by Businesses & entrepreneurs. The results generated based on the social media usage in Oman and Middle East with respect to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram. In terms of theoretical survey, this article clearly explains that all nations, aside from that these countries had more than 90 % of their populace utilizing long range informal communication destinations.

Published in	International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijefm.20150305.20
Page(s)	483-493
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2015. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Social Media, Social Networking, Sultanate of Oman, Entrepreneurship, Online Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Policies, Social Media Marketing

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Baby Sam Samuel, Joe Sarprasatha. Social Media as a Factor for Promoting Entrepreneurship - the Middle East & Oman Scenario. Int J Econ Finance Manag Sci. 2015;3(5):483-493. doi: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20150305.20

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Baby Sam Samuel

Department of Management, SRM University, Tamilnadu, India
Joe Sarprasatha

Department of Management, SRM School of Management, SRM University, Tamilnadu, India

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Baby Sam Samuel, Joe Sarprasatha. Social Media as a Factor for Promoting Entrepreneurship - the Middle East & Oman Scenario. Int J Econ Finance Manag Sci. 2015;3(5):483-493. doi: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20150305.20

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