Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management: Negotiating Institutional Complexity

Increasing access to business incubation services for cottage start-ups to promote inclusive entrepreneurship in Southwest Uganda

“…In Uganda, Kyakulumbye and Pather (2022) delve into understanding ICT adoption amongst SMEs, contributing to the development of a participatory design model for enhancing technology diffusion. Ouimette, Chowdhury, & Kickul (2021) propose a design model for improving information security adoption for SMEs in Uganda, addressing critical concerns in the realm of cybersecurity. Social media's impact on micro and small enterprises is explored by Sendawula et al (2022) and Kikawa et al (2022), offering insights into the perceptions, readiness, and usage of social media in fostering sustainable growth and marketing performance.…”

Effect of institutional support and entrepreneurial knowledge on women’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy and venture performance in a developing country

“…The legal framework indicates a sound reputation towards entrepreneurship owing to an enormous impact on entrepreneurial cognition, including confidence, vision and willingness (Omwenga et al, 2013). Institutional formalization and the perspective of institutional profits, which includes subsidies, financial endowments, counselling, legal and technical leadership, are identified extensively in entrepreneurship literature through the dominant predictors of the struggles of women entrepreneurs (Ouimette et al, 2021). Henceforth, as planned, there is the development of formal institutional arrangements to provide the training, public funding, guidance and benefits to grow the women's potential to deal with the improbabilities of entrepreneurial risk.…”

“…The existing entrepreneurial literature proposes that proficient considerations are progressed with government business officers to enable the female entrepreneurs to improve their opportunities in self-confidence recognition, advancement and vigorous informal networking of the business (Modarresi et al, 2016). The formalized institutional strategy arrangements are referred to as an essential component of the productive and extensive level of the opportunities for women's entrepreneurial advancements, there is a good chance that these will influence the tangible and intangible assets to create such successful practical endeavours (Ouimette et al, 2021). The domain scholars emphasize that institutional obstacles, including uncomplimentary rules and the state's regulations to form new projects, have a negative impact on entrepreneurship cognitions (Azmi, 2017;Khan and Ghufran, 2018).…”

“…On the other hand, Ouimette et al (2021) recommend that the absence of society's normative support for women's entrepreneurial strategies discourages the levels of the women' ambitions to become entrepreneurs and thereby safeguard societal approval. The institutionalization of a "one-is-not-alone", a society embodied with culture, assists women and, through sensitive safety and dispensing worries of trade fiascos inspires them to participate comprehensively toward business accomplishments (Hasan and Almubarak, 2016;Danso et al, 2016).…”