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Societies all over the world have used education as the instrument for the national development while students' academic performance has the real impact on their professional career development. There are many factors which can directly affect students' academic performance. However, after extensive reviews of the past literatures, the researchers argued that time management and external motivation have relatively higher influences on students' academic performance. The quantitative questionnaire survey method was employed for this study. The findings of the study indicated that there is a significant and positive relationship between time management and students' academic performance. In the light of the findings, we discuss the importance of time management in order to improve students' academic performance. Implications, suggestions and recommendations for students, parents, policy makers and educational stakeholders were discussed.Needless to say that the university student is working hard in order to achieve best results in terms of grade point average at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels due to the extreme difficulty in job search competition in the labour market after their graduation. For the case of public universities in Malaysia, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) was selected where in most cases students are required to take six to seven subjects for each semester of 14 weeks excluding revision/examination weeks. This is quite tight schedule and burdensome especially for those who do not have outstanding photographic memory. As a result, time management is one of the critical factors which will directly influence student academic performance. A proper time management skill may help university students especially UUM students to overcome and manage the tight schedule effectively. www.ccsenet.org/ass

The global interest on entrepreneurship and small business development as a means of economic sustainability and growth through emphasis on location has not been commonly utilized and openly declared. However, the inconsistent results on the relationship between entrepreneurial factors and firm performance have led the authors to propose a contingency model in which the effects of individual determinants, external factors and firm characteristics on firm performance are moderated by location. A cross-sectional study of questionnaire survey research design was conducted and data was generated from 182 entrepreneurs or owner-managers of small firms in both manufacturing and service industries. The questionnaires were distributed through drop-off and pick procedure of data collection. The findings indicate that location strongly moderate the relationship between both external factors and firm characteristics with firm performance. However, it is found that location factor does not moderate the relationship between individual determinant and small firm performance.

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