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Small Sample Size
The number of samples is quite small due to it is an exploratory study.
In the future, bigger samples should be used to validate the findings
from this study. According to Krejcie and Morgan (1970), if the
population is more than one million than the minimum sample size
needed to make generalization should be around 384. Therefore, a
bigger sample is needed to validate the credibility of the findings.

Database of Women Entrepreneurs
The respondents were from MARA entrepreneur database; therefore,
the data collection should be generated from the database of Muslim
women zakat recipients in Malaysia in the future. Hence, more valid
responses can be generated in identifying whether the concept of co-
working space is desirable for women entrepreneurs who received
financial assistance from zakat institutions in Malaysia.

Proposed Management of Co-working Space for Zakat and Waqf
Institutions
From the results of the exploratory research, it shows that there is a
demand for co-working space among the Muslim women
entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Hence, Figure 3 illustrates the proposed
framework of co-working space for Muslim women entrepreneurs that
can be administered by either zakat or waqf institutions in eradicating
poverty among Muslim women entrepreneurs in Malaysia. Therefore,
a collaboration between zakat and waqf institutions is highly needed in
ensuring sufficient funding and manpower are available to form a
management team for the co-working space initiative.

Therefore, either the waqf or zakat institutions should identify whether
they have any office spaces that are unutilized to be converted into co-
working space. In case, they do not have any unused office space, may
be waqf should purchase an office space to be converted into co-

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