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The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/79638 The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development Ratangee, Navlika ichelp@gibs.co.za Pillay, Nalisha UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2020. The sustainability of nascent entrepreneurs remains a critical factor in addressing society's deep-rooted problems and overall welfare. From this perspective, supporting entrepreneurial learning during their entrepreneurial ventures is critical to the entire community’s success. This study investigates the influence of an entrepreneur’s social learnings, their capacity to cope with new ventures, and the perceptions about their successes or failures during the opportunity development phase. The study finds that entrepreneurs adopt learning behaviour primarily from their social background, driven by a strong desire to rebel against society’s bias, engage in iterative, collaborative engagement with the community. Frequently adopting self-reflection, learning by interpreting and an emotional evolution of their entrepreneurial mind-set relying on the logic of bricolage and emotional cognition to create opportunities that support the communities. This study is limited to a sample of South African entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial mentors using in-depth semi-structured interviews. The study adopts an exploratory and qualitative methodology. The study finds application for both all entrepreneurs, policy makers and educational learning programs involved in the mentorship and development of entrepreneurs. This study provides a deeper analysis of opportunity development phase of a nascent entrepreneur. With a focus on the social learns, emotional cognitions and experiential learning factors that drive and inhibit them and further obtaining an understanding the coping mechanisms that could be adopted for effective and sustainable opportunity development and, ultimately, ensuring that nascent entrepreneurs transition to the final phase of entrepreneurship. pt2021 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2021-04-22T10:33:24Z 2021-04-22T10:33:24Z 2021/04/14 2020 Mini Dissertation Pillay, N 2020, The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79638> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79638 en © 2020 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 The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development |
| title | The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development |
| title_full | The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development |
| title_fullStr | The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development |
| title_full_unstemmed | The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development |
| title_short | The influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development |
| title_sort | influence of social learning behaviour during entrepreneurial opportunity development |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79638 |