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Browsing Economic and Management Sciences by UP Author "Botha, Melodi"
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Achieving coherence : towards a model of the nascent-stage behavioral dynamics of new venture teams Pietersen, Michael; Botha, Melodi (Springer, 2021-09)While research has begun to identify Team Entrepreneurial Passion (TEP) and Team Entrepreneurial Competencies (TEC) as drivers of new venture team (NVT) dynamics, current literature fails to account for how these cognitive ...
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Botha, Melodi; Blignaut (Taljaard), Amorie (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2019-05)BACKGROUND: Although many scholars focus their research efforts on predicting entrepreneurial intention, these scholars have not determined the bidirectional relationship between entrepreneurial intention and competencies. AIM: ...
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Botha, Melodi; Morallane, Hajo (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2019-09)BACKGROUND : The person–entrepreneurship fit has been confirmed for new ventures, but has not been determined for established entrepreneurs. Personality traits and entrepreneurial cognitions are seen as important factors ...
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Oosthuizen, Adele; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Botha, Melodi (University of Pretoria, Department of Business Management & Academic Entrepreneurship Society of South Africa (AcES), 2020-06-30)BACKGROUND : Despite calls by scholars for small business owners (SBOs) to seek external consultation from accountants, empirical work demonstrating the relationship between the frequency of various types of services ...
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Botha, Melodi; Nyanyom, Michael David Ochieng (University of Johannesburg, Department of Business Management, 2011)PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES: A causal relationship between the independent variable (introduction of innovation) and the dependent variable (Corporate Entrepreneurship orientation) is explored by addressing the question: Do ...
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Botha, Melodi; Pietersen, Michael (De Gruyter, 2020)Scholars often cite an entrepreneur’s actions and their skills, know-how and entrepreneurial competencies (ECs) as the most influential factors related to the accomplishment of important venturing outcomes. Yet the joint ...
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Botha, Melodi; Bignotti, Alex (Springer, 2017-12)We build on the work of Haynie and Shepherd (Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 33, 695–714, 2009), who introduced five dimensions of cognitive adaptability in an entrepreneurial context, and Urban (Management Dynamics, ...
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Botha, Melodi; Taljaard, Amorie (Frontiers Media, 2021-07-28)Several previous scholars have investigated the relationship between entrepreneurial intention (EI) and entrepreneurial competencies (ECs), yet categorising individual ECs in relation to higher-order competence constructs ...
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Leffler, Eva; Svedberg, Gudrun; Botha, Melodi (Umeå University, 2010-12)Policy documents for schools and education are being increasingly standardised all over the world and some research claims that a global curriculum is developing in which aspects such as entrepreneurship, lifelong learning ...
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Moos, Menisha; Botha, Melodi (University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2016)Many scholars have dedicated their studies to understanding the kind of assistance given to small business. Likewise, numerous studies have concentrated on how government in particular, through a small business policy, ...
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Pietersen, Michael; Botha, Melodi (Sage, 2021-12)While entrepreneurial behaviour is generally seen to arise from a reasoned, judgement-then-action pathway, evidence of an alternative is emerging. Yet, this alternative – an unreasoned, impulse-driven pathway remains to ...
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Botha, Melodi; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Kunene, Thandeka Ruth (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2015)Functional and enterprising competencies were identified in the integrated entrepreneurial performance model and the paper highlights which key skills and which supportive skills should be included in entrepreneurial ...
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Botha, Melodi; Bignotti, Alex (University of Pretoria, Department of Business Management & Academic Entrepreneurship Society of South Africa (AcES), 2016-09-29)BACKGROUND : Entrepreneurship education interventions are deemed effective when they enhance interns’ entrepreneurial intent (EI) and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE). Notwithstanding the emergence of internship as ...
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Botha, Melodi; Prawlall, T. (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2017)Franchisees play an important role in franchise systems, as they are responsible for managing their business and ensuring its overall performance. Since earlier research confirmed the relationship between entrepreneurial ...
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Botha, Melodi; Nieman, Gideon; Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen (Juta, 2007-06)The Women Entrepreneurship Programme (WEP) was developed after a need had been identified for such a training intervention. The WEP provides entrepreneurial and business management training to women entrepreneurs. This ...
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Botha, Melodi; Pohl, Marthi; Mubita, Lubinda (Routledge, 2021)Previous work on the relationships between entrepreneurship education, prior entrepreneurial exposure and entrepreneurial action has resulted in mixed findings. However, this work typically relies on linear models which ...
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Botha, Melodi; Robertson, Claire Leanne (Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, 2014)In the field of entrepreneurship and especially during start up, much emphasis is placed on the business plan with regard to entrepreneurship education and training, funding from external investors, business plan competitions ...
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Van Vuuren, Jurie Jansen; Botha, Melodi (2010)PURPOSE – This paper sets out to apply practically the constructs of the entrepreneurial performance training model to three different training interventions, known as the business start-up, basic entrepreneurship, and ...
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Botha, Melodi (Frontiers Media, 2020-05-26)While the differences between men and women with regard to entrepreneurial activity is well-acknowledged, few scholars have explored models explaining the differences through an objectivist lens. This research addresses ...
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Botha, Melodi (Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, 2010-12)This paper discusses the development and execution of an entrepreneurship exhibition project held in South Africa, in which 1 500 undergraduate first-year students took part. The current teaching practices in the course, ...
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