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Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies
Thesis (DBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24353 Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies Mouton, Johann upetd@up.ac.za Myres, Kerrin UCTD Entrepreneurship Thesis (DBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. In developing South Africa, a complex web of interacting historical, economic, organisational, social and personal factors influences entrepreneurial endeavour. Such phenomena cannot easily be explained by a priori theories largely based on data from the Western developed world rather than the developing world. The purpose of the study was to develop a mid-range theory of venture creation in a developing country, based on an in-depth understanding of the experiences of a sample of South African opportunity entrepreneurs. A multiple case-study design was selected. The research was delimited by focusing on entrepreneurs in South Africa currently or recently engaged in venture creation for opportunity-based, rather than survivalist, enterprises. A series of ‘thick’ narrative descriptions of individual entrepreneurs engaged in the start-up process was prepared. This was followed by within-case and cross-case analysis and comparison with the literature. Data analysis was conducted in the tradition of grounded theory, which is only rarely seen in the entrepreneurship literature. The primary theoretical contribution of this study is an enhanced perspective of the venture creation process and its sub-processes. The model synthesises the efforts of other scholars, incorporates the lived experience of entrepreneurs in this study, adds new components to conventional models of new venture creation, and reconsiders the ordering of events in the process. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T17:18:02Z 2010-05-05 2013-09-06T17:18:02Z 2010-05-04 2010-05-05 2010-05-05 Thesis Myres, K 2008, Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies, DBA thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24353 > G10/25/mh http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24353 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05052010-131748/ © 2008, 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 application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Entrepreneurship Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies |
| title | Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies |
| title_full | Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies |
| title_fullStr | Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies |
| title_short | Venture creation : building theory from South African case studies |
| title_sort | venture creation building theory from south african case studies |
| topic | UCTD Entrepreneurship |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24353 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05052010-131748/ |