Entrepreneur’s Intrapersonal Resources and Enterprise Success among Micro and Small Scale Women Entrepreneurs
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Date
2015
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Journal of Enterprising Culture
Abstract
The study explores the relationship between intrapersonal resources (formal
schooling, formal entrepreneurial education and training, and informal entrepreneurial
training and education) and success of micro and small enterprises
(MSEs). Using Structural Equation Modeling, the study tested the mediating role
of entrepreneurial competence in this relationship on a sample of 303 women
drawn from the tourism and hospitality sector. The results reveal that entrepreneurial
competence plays a mediating role in the relationship between intrapersonal
resources and enterprise success. The results also show that informal
entrepreneurial training is important in complementing formal entrepreneurial
training and education towards enterprise success. It is also shown that formal
schooling has a weak relationship with entrepreneurial competence but has
varying relationships with both financial and non-financial success.
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Keywords
Women entrepreneurs, Micro and small enterprises, Entrepreneurial resources, Formal schooling, Formal entrepreneurial education
Citation
Katongole, C., Munene, J. C., Ngoma, M., Dawa, S., & Sserwanga, A. (2015). Entrepreneur’s intrapersonal resources and enterprise success among micro and small scale women entrepreneurs. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 23(04), 405-447. DOI: 10.1142/S0218495815500144