Challenges Faced by Women  Entrepreneurs and Strategies Adopted by Women Entrepreneurs to Ensure Small Business Success in Nkonkobe Municipality, Sout Africa

Deborah, Agholor Ewere

doi:10.31901/24566594.2015/06.01.05

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“…According to Chinomona and Maziriri (2015), poor people especially women are in need of creating new enterprises and expand existing enterprises (Deborah et al, 2015) and other socio-cultural issues associated with their gender (Chinomona & Maziriri, 2015). One of the key ways to combat these challenges is through ROSCAs and ASCAs which are vastly related to saving and loan services and entrepreneurship.…”

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Rotating and Accumulating Savings and Credit Associations as Effective Tool for Enhancing the Women Entrepreneurship. A Theoretical Review

Niyonsaba

Adenikinju

Ntoiti

2022

ESJ

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Rotating and accumulating savings and credit associations are recognized as essential drivers for enhancing women's entrepreneurship. The contribution of the informal organizations on entrepreneurship has been broadly studied. Many have overlooked women entrepreneurship. The current study reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on savings and credit associations and women entrepreneurship. The specific objectives are: to identify factors that encourage women's participation in rotating and accumulating savings and credit associations, to assess how the rotating and accumulating savings and credit associations promote women's entrepreneurship, and to establish theories that link rotating and accumulating savings and credit associations and women entrepreneurship. The study is anchored on three theories, namely: social network theory, social capital theory, and theory of structural hole. The research study was based on descriptive research design. The study reviewed previous research on savings and credit groups and women entrepreneurship. Findings showed that thrifts and loans organizations were more effective at augmenting awareness of entrepreneurship among women members than non-partakers. The study concludes that savings and credit organizations have been effective in increasing women's entrepreneurship. The study recommends the following: First, the savings and credit associations should be included in entrepreneurship development programs of the government. Second, there should be utilization of informal associations as a better approach to have access to microcredits for enterprises startup and growth, and lastly, the inception of programs that will increase awareness of entrepreneurship among women.

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Rotating and Accumulating Savings and Credit Associations as Effective Tool for Enhancing the Women Entrepreneurship. A Theoretical Review

Niyonsaba

Adenikinju

Ntoiti

2022

ESJ

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“…The key to unlocking economic growth is South African women entrepreneurs. Women constitute 52% of the total population in South Africa, and several surveys demonstrate that more females have been engaged in entrepreneurship since independence was achieved in 1994 (Deborah, Wilhelmina, Oyelana, & Ibrahim 2015). Akhalwaya and Havenga (2012) point out that the most significant assets of any nation are those of human capital and since females make up more than half of South Africa's inhabitants, they are the one resource that needs to be brought to the mainstream of the economy.…”

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Navigating on the key drivers for a transition to a green economy: evidence from women entrepreneurs in South Africa

Maziriri¹,

Mapuranga²,

Maramura³

et al. 2019

JESI

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This research aims to determine how women entrepreneurs engaged in green entrepreneurship can help build a green economy in South Africa. The study was conducted using a non-probability conveniently selected sample of women green entrepreneurs operating in Gauteng Province, South Africa. A qualitative approach was followed involving semi-structured face to face interviews and focus groups with the selected participants. The collected data were analysed using thematic analysis. After the thematic analysis, four themes (drivers) for a Transition to a Green Economy emerged, which are green entrepreneurship education, the need for financial resources, green women entrepreneurs networking programmes and implementation for new green policies. The findings of the study will assist determine how women entrepreneurs work and engage in the green sector. Furthermore, this research makes a valuable contribution towards creating new knowledge in the green entrepreneurship sector by comprehending how women can help build a greener economy in South Africa.

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“…With Bloemfontein, Cape Town and Pretoria as three major cities and each has a branch of the government. After 22 years of majority rule, SA seems to have struggled to address the imbalances of the apartheid era especially in the labour market, education and infrastructure development (Banerjee et al, 2008;Deborah et al, 2015;Klasen et al, 1999).…”

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Entrepreneurship, gender gap and developing economies: the case of post-apartheid South Africa

Nyakudya

Simba

Herrington

2017

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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This empirical study examines the extent to which risk aversion and entrepreneurial ability influence an individual's decision to enter into entrepreneurship. Precisely, it delineates the gender gap in self-employment, nascent and high growth entrepreneurship. In doing so, it utilises the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor South Africa databases containing 19,469 usable cases sampled between 2009 and 2014. The study adopts a quantitative approach and it applies an estimator in the form of a probit model and a non-linear decomposition technique to test established hypotheses.The results indicate that lower levels of knowledge and skills among women explain a substantial part of the gender gap. Thus, the gender gap in nascent and high growth entrepreneurship would be reduced if women had similar characteristics as men. Also, their entry rates into self-employment would be high and there would be no gender difference. This shifts the emphasis from the significance of risk aversion for local entrepreneurship to accentuate the importance of entrepreneurial-specific skills required to successfully engage in entrepreneurship.

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Challenges Faced by Women Entrepreneurs and Strategies Adopted by Women Entrepreneurs to Ensure Small Business Success in Nkonkobe Municipality, Sout Africa

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Rotating and Accumulating Savings and Credit Associations as Effective Tool for Enhancing the Women Entrepreneurship. A Theoretical Review

Rotating and Accumulating Savings and Credit Associations as Effective Tool for Enhancing the Women Entrepreneurship. A Theoretical Review

Navigating on the key drivers for a transition to a green economy: evidence from women entrepreneurs in South Africa

Entrepreneurship, gender gap and developing economies: the case of post-apartheid South Africa

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