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Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/45025 Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa Marks, Jonathan ichelp@gibs.co.za Sabdia, Khaleel UCTD Entrepreneurship Business incubators -- South Africa Qualitative research Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. The field of entrepreneurship research offers differing theories regarding the underlying behaviours of entrepreneurs. These theoretical frameworks describe the behaviours and principal thought processes that entrepreneurs use to create new businesses. The unique attributes of the South African context, characterised by high unemployment and low entrepreneurial activity, together with new business formation make this field of research particularly important. Some of the major theoretical frameworks were reviewed in the study, and a qualitative study was employed using the Grounded Theory approach. Ten successful entrepreneurs were interviewed for the study and the data collected was used to provide insight into their behaviour and particularly sought to determine whether principles from Effectual Theory were present. The findings of the research supported some aspects of the important theoretical frameworks, emphasising the need for a multitude of perspectives rather than a single best framework. Particularly strong evidence of effectual entrepreneurial behaviours were found in the data, supporting the Theory of Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa. lmgibs2015 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Unrestricted 2015-05-07T07:30:49Z 2015-05-07T07:30:49Z 2015-04-24 2014 Mini Dissertation Sabdia, K. (2014).Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa (MBA mini-dissertation).Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. Retrieved from http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/1818 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45025 en © 2014 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 Business incubators -- South Africa Qualitative research Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa |
| title | Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa |
| title_full | Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa |
| title_short | Effectuation as a construct for new business formation in South Africa |
| title_sort | effectuation as a construct for new business formation in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Entrepreneurship Business incubators -- South Africa Qualitative research |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45025 |