Motivation, competences and the moderating role of business discontinuance on the entrepreneurial effect of self-employment
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2017
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Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Abstract
This paper interrogates the dynamic relationship between
motivation, competences, business discontinuance and the entrepreneurial
effect. Arguing that self-employment has the potential to reduce unemployment
in subsequent periods, this study uses mixed models to exhibit the
moderating role of business discontinuation on the entrepreneurial effects of
self-employment. It depicts this with data from 2013 on 10,003 youth
entrepreneurs from nine Sub-Saharan countries. The empirical results confirm
the existence of a significant moderating effect on motivation and the
entrepreneurial effect. We also find that this effect is higher in younger males
with more years of formal education.
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Entrepreneurial effect, Motivation, Competence, Self-employment, Business discontinuance
Citation
Namatovu, R. and Dawa, S. (2017) ‘Motivation, competences and the moderating role of business discontinuance on the entrepreneurial effect of self-employment’, Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp.410–426.