Exploring the factors that prevent home based to grow in South Africa

dc.contributor.advisorCorder, Cliveen
dc.contributor.emailichelp@gibs.co.zaen
dc.contributor.postgraduateLerefolo, Sampisi Lawrenceen
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-07T04:22:04Z
dc.date.available2012-09-21en
dc.date.available2013-09-07T04:22:04Z
dc.date.created2012-03-08en
dc.date.issued2011en
dc.date.submitted2012-07-14en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011.en
dc.description.abstractThis research explores the factors that impede the growth of retail home based enterprises in South Africa. The potential contribution of home based micro and small enterprises (MSEs), or Spaza shops to generating income and employment to people in the informal sector of the economy is becoming increasingly recognised. This paper provides the primary data which consists of a non-random sample of 47 Spaza shop owners and managers in the four different areas (old establishments, new establishments, informal and reconstruction and development programme (RDP)) in the township of Mamelodi, applying a quantitative research methodology. The level of human capital, gender, and entrepreneurial mindset of the proprietor are found to have an inverse relationship to the firm’s growth. Key results of the research are that women owners tend to struggle to grow their businesses given the temptation to direct the earnings from the home based business to the needs of the household, and Spaza shops tend to sell the same, if not identical, products as competitors thereby gaining no competitive advantage necessary for growth.en
dc.description.availabilityunrestricteden
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en
dc.identifier.citationLerefolo, SL 2011, Exploring the factors that prevent home based to grow in South Africa, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26290 >en
dc.identifier.otherF/12/4/682/zwen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07142012-201341/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/26290
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2011, 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.en
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.subjectFirm growthen
dc.subjectHome based enterprisesen
dc.subjectInformal businessen
dc.titleExploring the factors that prevent home based to grow in South Africaen
dc.typeDissertationen

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