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Creating entrepreneurs in South Africa through education
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/59883 Creating entrepreneurs in South Africa through education Maphalala, Jabu ichelp@gibs.co.za Moodley, Sudeshen UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2016. South African total early stage entrepreneurial activity rates declined by 34% in 2014 with a lack of education viewed as one of the key factors attributing to the decline. A lack of education suggests that education either creates entrepreneurs or enables entrepreneurship in South Africa. The literature suggests there are positive and negative links between education and entrepreneurship with no evidence of causation. This research study therefore seeks to establish if education in South Africa is an enabler or a creator of entrepreneurship in an effort to improve early stage entrepreneurial activity rates in South Africa. Qualitative research was conducted via semi structured interviews to 13 Johannesburg based South African entrepreneurs who represented various industries and had acquired a combination of formal, informal and non formal education in South Africa. The non probability sampling method was used, purposive and snowball in particular. The research study found that education, more specifically; formal education, can be a deterrent as well as an enabler of entrepreneurship in South Africa. It was clear that formal education does not create entrepreneurs in South Africa. Informal education was found to be an important method of learning to become an entrepreneur suggesting that entrepreneurs can be created via informal education in South Africa. sn2017 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2017-04-07T13:06:11Z 2017-04-07T13:06:11Z 2017-03-30 2016 Mini Dissertation Moodley, S 2016, Creating entrepreneurs in South Africa through education, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59883> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59883 en © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
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| title | Creating entrepreneurs in South Africa through education |
| title_full | Creating entrepreneurs in South Africa through education |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Creating entrepreneurs in South Africa through education |
| title_short | Creating entrepreneurs in South Africa through education |
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| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59883 |