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Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24627 Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups Antonites, Alex upetd@up.ac.za Tovey, Anne Marie UCTD Entrepreneurship Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The aim of this study was to determine entrepreneurial team formation criteria in the craft sector in South Africa, aimed at creating employment opportunities for the marginalized unemployed in the informal economy through linkages to the formal economy. A quantitative research approach was used in a descriptive research design, based on social network characteristics, as determined from the literature review, to identify team member absorption criteria to an entrepreneurial crafter group. The unit of analysis was existing crafter groups in Ekurhuleni. A questionnaire was used to gather the data in face-to-face interviews. Frequency tables, cross tabulations and Chi-square analysis were undertaken to determine the highest responses across all the variables. The outcome of the analysis indicated that new team members were selected to a team based on strong tie connections and Small World Networks. The majority of team members indicated that they would not have been selected to the group if the team leader did not trust them, indicating the importance of trust in the selection criteria. The financial position of the majority of team members had not improved as a result of membership to a crafter group. The critical role of weak ties, to link crafter groups to the formal sector, became evident to ensure sustainability of the crafter groups. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T18:06:05Z 2010-07-08 2013-09-06T18:06:05Z 2010-04-11 2010-07-08 2010-05-13 Dissertation Tovey, AM 2009, Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24627 > G10/379/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24627 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05132010-134222/ © 2009 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 Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups |
| title | Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups |
| title_full | Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups |
| title_fullStr | Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups |
| title_full_unstemmed | Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups |
| title_short | Entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in South Africa : the case of the Ekurhuleni crafter groups |
| title_sort | entrepreneurial team formation in the craft sector in south africa the case of the ekurhuleni crafter groups |
| topic | UCTD Entrepreneurship |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24627 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05132010-134222/ |