The Impact of Government Support Initiatives on the Growth of Female Businesses in Tshwane South Africa

Phillips, Magaret; Moos, Menisha; Nieman, Gideon

doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n15p85

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“…Access to resources has proved to be critical in the entrepreneurial process [74]. The sustainability of any SME is argued to be affected by various factors, among which is the access to resources [75][76][77]. Consequently, a lot of scholars have devoted much of their attention to explaining the critical impact resources have on SME sustainability [27,78,79].…”

Section: Access To Resourcesmentioning

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Resource and Information Access for SME Sustainability in the Era of IR 4.0: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Innovation Capability and Management Commitment

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In the era of industrial revelation 4.0 (IR 4.0), sustainability has been a serious challenge of contemporary small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Using Natural Resource-Based-View (NRBV), the current paper examines the moderated mediation model of the role of information access in the sustainability of SMEs, through the mediating role of access to resource and innovation capability in the relationship between information access and sustainability, and the moderating role of management commitment in the relationship between innovation capability and SME sustainability. This paper gathered data from 222 SMEs in Pakistan. The study used a purposive sampling technique to distribute the survey questionnaire. Smart-PLS software was used to analyze the data. The study finding indicates that access to information affects both sustainability and innovation capability. Moreover, access to resources affects innovation capability, though it did not affect SME sustainability. Furthermore, innovation capability mediates the relationship between access to resources, access to information, and SME sustainability. Additionally, management commitment moderates the relationship between access to information and innovation capability; however, it does not moderate the relationship between access to resources and innovation capability. Practical, theoretical, and methodological implications are discussed in the study.

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Section: Access To Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resource and Information Access for SME Sustainability in the Era of IR 4.0: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Innovation Capability and Management Commitment

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“…The recent national drive to promote gender equality has led to the establishment of a number of initiatives with the sole purpose of reducing gender inequalities. The support initiatives include; Small Enterprise Development Agency; South African Micro Apex Fund; Youth Development Agency and National Empowerment Fund (Botha et al, 2013;DTI, 2015;Phillips et al, 2014). Further support to potential entrepreneurs is also made available through private organisations such as SA Breweries and Anglo American.…”

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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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“…In recent years, policy makers, commentators and researchers have become more interested in the importance of small businesses. It has been widely recognized that startups and more established small businesses play an important role in economic growth and job creation (Kruger, Chantal, & Saunders, 2015;Phillips, Moos, & Nieman, 2014). In order to improve the economic conditions and poverty issues in developing economies, small businesses can play a vital role because Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) are generally regarded as the driving force of economic growth and poverty reduction (Okpara, 2011;Amra, Hlatshwayo, & McMillan, 2013;Cant, 2016).…”

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SMME attitudes towards financial bootstrapping: A perspective from a developing economy

Zwane¹,

Nyide²

2017

BEH

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The national and international literature and research on SMMEs has been developed very strongly in the last decade. There have been many successful attempts on the part of many researchers and scholars to unpack new and innovative dimensions of SMMEs' operations, behaviour, attitudes, functions and other dynamics that boost, sustain or impede their growth and development. There is, however, a gap in research, regarding a very distinct practice within SMMEs in developing economies, that of bootstrapping. This study, therefore, used a sample chosen on a non-probability basis using convenience sampling of small business owners within the eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 83 participants completed the questionnaire. The study found that the practice of financial bootstrapping was very high amongst the investigated SMMEs. The use of financial bootstrapping within SMMEs is coincidental. The majority of the respondents indicated that they did not undergo any formal training on the use of financial bootstrapping methods.

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The Impact of Government Support Initiatives on the Growth of Female Businesses in Tshwane South Africa

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Resource and Information Access for SME Sustainability in the Era of IR 4.0: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Innovation Capability and Management Commitment

Resource and Information Access for SME Sustainability in the Era of IR 4.0: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Innovation Capability and Management Commitment

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

SMME attitudes towards financial bootstrapping: A perspective from a developing economy

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