Cooperative socities' intervention, entrepreneurial capacity and growth of businesses
Published by : Makerere university, makerere university business school (Kampala) Physical details: X-44 f. 30 cm.
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Coopérative
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Entrepreneurial
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Croissance Economique
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The purpose of the study was to examined the relationship between cooperative societies intervention , entrepreneurial capacity and the growth of small businesses. The research questions used achieve the above purpose were : what is the relationship between cooperatives societies' intervention and entrepreneurial capacity? What the relationshp between entrepreneurial and the growth of small businesses?
A Conceptual framework relating the independent, intermediate and dependent variables was developed. A cross sectional survey design was used to collect quantitative data. The researcher used simple random sampling and questionnaire was developed to collect data from respondents. A representative sample of 115 respondents was selected from targeted population 163. The data were analyzed using the statistical Package for social scientists (SPSS). Results showed that there was a revealed a significant positive relationship between cooperative societies intervention and entrepreneurial capacities (r=.722, p-value<0.01). In addition, there was a significant positive relationship between entrepreneurial capacities and growth of businesses (r=.727, p-value<0.01). The researcher concluded that cooperative societes' intervention improves on entrepreneurial capacities of small businesses in Burundi (Kayanza and Ngozi) in terms of accessing finances, entrepreneurial skills managerial skills and location and networking. Entrepreneurial capacities improve the growth of businesses in terms of sales volume, profit and number/ range of
product. The researcher recommended that Burundi' Government through its priorities could initiative supports for cooperative societies because this research revealed that cooperative societies are boosters of entrepreneurial capacities which in turn foster growh of businesses
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