Influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Women’s Business Performance in Bangladesh

Mozumdar, Lavlu; Omta, Onno; Velde, Gerben van der; Hagelaar, Geoffrey

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“…Entrepreneurial orientation: Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is viewed as a determinant of business performance [51][52][53][54]. EO refers to strategic capabilities with actual practices of entrepreneurs that lead to new 'entry', such as access to new markets by offering new or existing products or services [55][56][57].…”

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“…Third, the potential cost (time and money) of building and maintaining a large set of strong ties might outweigh the potential benefit (new knowledge and information) [139]. Furthermore, in many developing countries the social environment constrains the position of women in society [10][11][12]54,140]. Women are confined to their household activities and are discouraged from engaging in social networks outside the family [108,141].…”

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Determinants of the Business Performance of Women Entrepreneurs in the Developing World Context

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Resource-based theory posits the deployment of resources by entrepreneurs to achieve performance without questioning the possibility of deploying these resources. The question, however, remains how resources are deployed in developing countries that constrain the choice in the deployment of resources. To answer this, we analyse the factors determining the business performance of women entrepreneurs in a developing country context. Data were collected through a survey sent to 211 Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs engaged in handicraft businesses. Results from hierarchical multiple regression analyses show that (1) the social environment in terms of socio-cultural norms and customs hinders the performance; (2) the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions, namely, combined Innovative–proactive EO and Risk-taking EO, and the business trainings positively affect the performance; and (3) the social ties negatively influence the performance, which may be due to the excessive presence of strong ties in a personal social network. Based on results, we suggest that environment (context) is a contingent factor for the way personal traits such as EO, human, and social capital can be used by women entrepreneurs to achieve performance in a developing world context.

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Determinants of the Business Performance of Women Entrepreneurs in the Developing World Context

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“…For this research, Bangladesh is selected as case study. In Bangladesh, the social environment in which women entrepreneurs operate represents a significant constraint to the formation of networks outside the family (Maas et al 2014) and thereby to their business (Drinkwater 2009;Kabir and Huo 2011;Rabbani and Chowdhury 2013;Mozumdar et al 2016a). This study therefore explicitly contributes to the network (over) embeddedness and performance literature by providing insights on the impact of network size and of the type of network ties on business performance of women entrepreneurs working in socially constrained environments in a developing country.…”

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“…Results of studies done in developing countries 2 highlight as well the attention for contingency e.g. the (negative) influence of the social environment on social relations hampering business performance (Amine and Staub 2009;Jamali 2009;Roomi and Harrison 2010;De Vita et al 2014;Mozumdar et al 2016b). Granovetter's (1985) observation about the way in which economic activity is "embedded in concrete ongoing systems of social relations" (p. 490) can be extended to the shaping of EO and of social capital: the shaping of EO and social relations is embedded in already existing ongoing societal and environmental systems.…”

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“…A social environment is defined as the social norms, values and customs that regulate all the aspects of the everyday life (Glonti et al 2016). In many developing countries, the social environment constrains the position of women in society (Amine and Staub 2009;Jamali 2009;Roomi and Harrison 2010;De Vita et al 2014;Mozumdar et al 2016a). Women are confined to their homestead activities and are discouraged to engage in networks outside the family (Mayoux 2001).…”

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Entrepreneurship against the tide : Business performance of women entrepreneurs in a constrained environment. A survey in Bangladesh

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~ 33 ~ 2015). In order to provide theoretical backgrounds on the research and the methodology, a two days' long training has been given to the local interviewers: Three local enumerators indeed were involved in order to support the main researcher in processing the questionnaires also in the most remote areas of the districts. Each interview lasted one and half hours. Data were collected from February, 2015 to June, 2015. Variables of the modelDependent variable: business performance Business performance can be measured via perceived and objective (or archival) financial or non-financial performance measures (Rauch et al. 2009). This study adopts perceived measures. Perceived measures use a rating scale to compare performance with competitors, whereas objective measures use actual financial data (Dess and Robinson 1984;Dawes 1999;Zulkiffli 2014). The validity and reliability of perceived measures is proved by several authors in different contexts (Dess and Robinson 1984;Sarkar et al. 2001;Wall et al. 2004), also in analysing the relationship between EO and business performance, as demonstrated by Rauch et al. (2009). This is particularly useful in the context of women entrepreneurs who are not able to correctly indicate the objective data about their business performance, as in our case. Business performance of women entrepreneurs is therefore measured on five perceptual items referred to three specific dimensions, financial, economic and operational performance (Venkatraman and Ramanujam 1986). The financial dimension refers to the growth in profit (My shop had a higher profit compared to other handicrafts shops); the economic dimension is expressed by one item referring to the growth in production volumes (The total volume of my firm's production has increased); the operational performance is indicated by three items referring respectively to: price satisfaction (I was satisfied with the price that I got from my customers), customer satisfaction (Customers were satisfied with my products and services), quality of products (My shop had better products on offer compared to other handicrafts shops). These items are measured on a seven-point scale (1= completely disagree, 7= completely agree). The summated score (Hughes and Morgan 2007) of five items of the scale represents business performance of Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs. Independent variables Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions.To measure the EO dimensions of women entrepreneurs, we use an adapted version of the EO scale proposed by Verhees et al. (2012). EO includes twenty-two items of innovativeness, risk-taking and pro-activeness, measured on a seven-point scale (1= completely disagree, 7= completely agree) 9 . EO dimensions of Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs are the result of an exploratory factor analysis reported later on in the text (see Table 2.1). Barriers in social environment. Barriers in social environment are measured with an item representing hindrances due to family, norms, customs, traditions and religion. This item is measured on ...

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Embeddedness or Over-Embeddedness? Women Entrepreneurs’ Networks and Their Influence on Business Performance

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Influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Women’s Business Performance in Bangladesh

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Determinants of the Business Performance of Women Entrepreneurs in the Developing World Context

Entrepreneurship against the tide : Business performance of women entrepreneurs in a constrained environment. A survey in Bangladesh

Embeddedness or Over-Embeddedness? Women Entrepreneurs’ Networks and Their Influence on Business Performance

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