Similarities and differences between male and female entrepreneurial attributes in manufacturing firms in the informal sector in the Transkei

Mahadea, Darma

doi:10.1080/037/68350120041893

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“…Factors other than gender, such as age, education, marital status, business experience, responsibility and spatial influences also influence women's preferences for involvement in the informal sector, as well as business growth, expansion and formalization. Mahadea (), for example, uses a mixed methods approach to compare entrepreneurial tendencies between men and women using the 6‐factor General Enterprise Tendency (GET) scale. She finds that while men scored higher on four of the five factors (including need for achievement, internal locus of control, creative tendency and calculated risk‐taking), the difference is not significant on gender grounds.…”

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Value of Formalization for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Contexts: A Review and Research Agenda

Xheneti

Madden

Karki

2017

Int J Management Reviews

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Formalization is constantly being proposed as being of great benefit to business expansion and success. This claim, however, has not been previously tested through a review of the empirical evidence, especially in relation to the large number of women in the developing world that operate in the informal economy. Therefore, the aim of this review is to systematize the current empirical evidence on gender, the informal economy and formalization, using a narrative synthesis of 76 papers. The papers were analysed along three main analytical themes -identity, institutions, and constraints and preferences -highlighting their conceptualization in studies of different academic disciplines -economics, sociology, entrepreneurship and development. The review calls for more accurate accounts of formalization decisions by widening the lens through which formalization decisions are conceptualized. These should take account of the rich contextual and temporal dimensions central to these decisions, and recognize that gender alone is not a sufficient factor in explaining women's choices in the informal economy. The review also highlights limitations in relation to the limited conceptual and empirical evidence on which development priorities such as formalization are set. The authors propose a research agenda centred on the need for conceptual frameworks that are more sensitive towards the multidimensional contexts of women's choices.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Value of Formalization for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Contexts: A Review and Research Agenda

Xheneti

Madden

Karki

2017

Int J Management Reviews

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“…However, business ownership has traditionally been viewed as a male preserve where women have been involved in ventures but often only as silent or invisible partners. Mahadea (2001) notes that women entrepreneurs in South Africa remain on the periphery of the national economy. The female total entrepreneurial activity index shows that participation rates for men tend to be on average 50% higher than those for women (Minniti et al, 2005).…”

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The impact of gender on SME characteristics and access to debt finance in South Africa

Garwe

Fatoki

2012

Development Southern Africa

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This study aimed to determine whether South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are affected by gender differences in demand for debt and its availability. It also looked at whether there are gender differences in the firm and entrepreneurial characteristics of SMEs. The study was conducted by means of a survey using a self-administered questionnaire and statistical analyses that included descriptive statistics, a t-test and a logistic regression. Significant gender differences were found in SMEs' demand for debt finance but only insignificant differences in availability. The findings also revealed significant gender differences in some of the firm and entrepreneurial characteristics of SMEs. It appears that for SME owners in South Africa gender differences exist in the demand for debt finance but not in its availability. The policy recommendation is that commercial banks, government agencies and non-governmental organisations should aim to help and encourage female SME owners to apply for debt finance.

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“…Women entrepreneurs generally experience lots of social constrains as the pessimistic view by cultural norms on women engagement to the wider male based network as well as sex biasness discourage women entrepreneurships widely (Erwee, 1987;Mahadea, 2001). Moreover, lack of educational and training attainment by women also hinders the keep growth of women entrepreneurship in the developing country (Robertson, 1998).…”

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“…Moreover, lack of educational and training attainment by women also hinders the keep growth of women entrepreneurship in the developing country (Robertson, 1998). Besides above barriers, other major obstacles also obstructs to promote women owned businesses include cultural and societal problems, employment legislation and policy, lack of information, financial assistance, absence of vehicles for skills development and capacity building, fragmented approaches to identifying issues and developing strategy to influence policy affecting business and government interventions (Erwee, 1987;Mahadea, 2001). Similarly performance of women owned businesses hamper in the less developed economy due to defenselessness of women to unpleasant effects of trade reform; restraints with regard to assets (land); lack of information accessibility; and low mobilization of women entrepreneurs; lack of management skills; lack of awareness among young women regarding entrepreneurship as a career option; conflicting gender roles; legal constraints, institutional and policy levels support (Robertson (1998), OECD (2002 and ILO (2008).…”

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Working Environment for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

Sattar¹,

Dewri²,

Ananna³

2016

IJBM

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Women entrepreneurship is a very thorny task in Bangladesh like other developing nations. Generally, women entrepreneurs are facing number of hindrances during start-up to operating their enterprises though they have enormous contribution to the national economic growth and employment generation. The aim of this research study is to scrutinize the working environment for women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. To conduct the study 752 sample has been considered and examined to get research outcome. The research results reveal that Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs generally have very limited financial capabilities to initiate their business as well as inadequate of collateral facilities leads to discourage the financial institutions to offer credit facilities to them. Also women entrepreneurs face other social constrains to operate and manage their business those can be connected with gender discrimination, undermining as economic means, legal constrains and imperfect view by financial institutions that women are unable to manage their business.

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Similarities and differences between male and female entrepreneurial attributes in manufacturing firms in the informal sector in the Transkei

Cited by 29 publications

References 14 publications

Value of Formalization for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Contexts: A Review and Research Agenda

Value of Formalization for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Contexts: A Review and Research Agenda

The impact of gender on SME characteristics and access to debt finance in South Africa

Working Environment for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

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