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The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23478 The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa Fisher, Greg upetd@up.ac.za Odame, Angela UCTD Entrepreneurship Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The purpose of this research was to investigate the strategic planning processes that are prevalent among South Africa’s small businesses. In particular, the research aimed to confirm that small businesses in South Africa use emergent strategies over prescriptive strategies. The research also aimed to find out how environmental turbulence, growth and the influence of the business owner impacted the level of formalisation of the strategic planning process in the businesses. The research used qualitative data from a non-probability sample. An online survey questionnaire was used to collect the data and various descriptive and variance statistical tests conducted. The report provides evidence that emergent strategies are more prevalent than prescriptive strategies and that small businesses use strategic planning tools and techniques for management purposes. The research also provides evidence that there is a positive relationship between the growth and the level of formalisation of the strategic planning process in a business. The formal strategic planning process is therefore critical for business success. A positive relationship was also observed between the level of education and the level of formalisation and a lack of knowledge of strategic planning tools and techniques may result in the use of an informal planning process. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T15:25:33Z 2010-06-19 2013-09-06T15:25:33Z 2008-04-04 2010-06-19 2010-03-25 Dissertation Odame, AM 2007, The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23478 > G10/183/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23478 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03252010-154458/ © 2007 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Entrepreneurship The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa |
| title | The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa |
| title_full | The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa |
| title_short | The relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa |
| title_sort | relevance of strategic planning for entrepreneurial businesses in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Entrepreneurship |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23478 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03252010-154458/ |