Download or read book Micro and Small Textile related Business Enterprise in Botswana written by Marina Rinas Gobagoba and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small, medium, and micro enterprises are important in helping achieve economic diversity. Because of their importance Botswana Government has helped in their initiation. But little is known about the business owner's experiences of being in operation. Women textile and apparel operated businesses were studied as they are on the increase in Botswana. The purpose of the study was to describe and analyze micro and small textile and apparel businesses operated by women and explore the motivations for initiating the business, factors used for defining successful and less successful firms, and challenges faced as business is initiated and expands. The second purpose was to compare the more and less successful groups of women on their motivations for initiating the business, challenges faced at business start-up and business growth, and selected demographics. A final purpose was to address the lack of research on small businesses in Botswana. Data were collected through structured interviews of 25 micro and small textile and apparel businesses selected systematically from a list of names given to the researcher. All had been in business for at least three years and received government assistance at start-up. Frequencies, t-test, and chi square were used to compare and examine the more and less successful businesses on their motivations for starting the businesses, challenges faced at business start-up and growth, and on selected variables. The study showed a number of similarities on motivations for initiating business and on business challenges faced between U.S. and Botswana businesswomen. Motivations for starting the business were described as both extrinsic and intrinsic. There were similarities and differences to existing research literature on small business success. Both more and less successful businesses faced challenges at both business start-up and growth. On motivation, the two groups differed on the desire to do business as a career, and for challenges at business growth, the groups differed on management. In both cases these characteristics were stronger for more successful businesses than the less successful businesses. For Botswana businesswomen success was measured in terms of measurable outcomes, such as profits.
Download or read book Policy on Small Medium and Micro Enterprises in Botswana written by Botswana and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Medium and Micro Enterprises Task Force Report written by Botswana. Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises Task Force and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Basics of Entrepreneurship and Strategy An Emerging African Fashion and Textile Market Perspective written by Dr. Shivkumar M. Belli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small and Medium scale Enterprises in Botswana written by Lisenda Lisenda and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Clusters and Micro and Small Enterprises in Africa written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute, and the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID), in collaboration with researchers affiliated with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), recently conducted a study on Africa s domestic enterprises to improve the understanding of the constraints micro and small enterprises in Africa face in improving productivity and expanding their markets. In Africa, there are stark performance gaps between domestically owned enterprises and foreign-owned enterprises in terms of sales performance, productivity, and ability to reach distant markets. Among others, size appears to be a dominant factor in explaining the gap. Against this background, the study analyzes how naturally formed industrial clusters concentrations of enterprises engaged in same or closely related industrial activities in specific locations could potentially mitigate constraints Africa s micro and small enterprises face and enhance their business performance. The study is one of the first comprehensive quantitative inquiries on industrial clusters in Africa. The analysis specifically focuses on the role of spontaneously grown clusters of light manufacturing industries based on a set of original case studies of industrial clusters conducted for this research project. One of the key findings from the case studies was that cluster-based micro and small enterprises are performing better than similar micro and small enterprises outside of the clusters in terms of sales performance and ability to reach distant markets. Market access is a leading reason for cluster-based enterprises to choose their current locations. However, cluster-based enterprises face another set of unique growth constraints. By the very nature of spontaneous agglomera tion, new enterprises continue to flow to the clusters seeking the profit opportunities and better access to markets at such locations. The result can be intense competition in addition to increased congestion. Space constraints often impede growth within clusters. The lack of alternative locations available for industrial activities in the same cities, generic infrastructure bottlenecks, and unclear zoning policies and their unpredictable changes limit firms location choices and constrain their mobility. While competition should improve efficiency, lack of capacity among those competing cluster-based enterprises to invest and innovate does not generate growth out of the competition. The vast majority of naturally formed clusters of light manufacturing industries in Africa are still at a survival level, where agglomeration externalities are only limited to expand quantity but not quality as we observe in more advanced innovation-oriented clusters in elsewhere in the world. Existing studies on such natural industrial clusters in Africa have found that the lack of managerial skills among entrepreneurs running micro and small enterprises is a major constraint for innovation and growth in the clusters. As a part of this study, pilot managerial skills training programs were conducted in two industrial clusters on an experimental basis, where a group of randomly selected entrepreneurs within the clusters were given three-week long crush course of based management such as bookkeeping, marketing, business planning, and production management. The impact evaluation of the experiments showed significant positive impacts of the training programs on value added and gross profits of enterprises. Raising the current survival-type industrial clusters, which have been formed as a coping mechanism to weak investment climate, into more dynamic innovating clusters will be an important avenue for fostering growth of micro and small enterprises in Africa. While national efforts to improve investment climate and investments in human capital are undoubtedly important, there could be more targeted policies to be formulated, in complementing general policies, to support growth of micro and small domestic enterprises using existing industrial clusters as a natural springboard for their growth. In that context, the study discusses the merit of cluster-based managerial human capital development to build steps toward more innovation-oriented clusters, the importance of sound spatial planning policy, particularly at the local level in the context of urban planning, the need to expand market access and economic linkages for industrial clusters including regional integration and linkages with large enterprises.
Download or read book Botswana Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Botswana Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information
Download or read book Factors Affecting the Growth of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Botswana written by Dulu Moaisi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Fashion written by Carme Moreno-Gavara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes female entrepreneurship in the textile sector in Africa as a phenomenon that favors the social integration and economic development of women in certain geographical areas. It identifies entrepreneurship as an avenue through which women can escape the feeling of being trapped in the home and assert their independence while providing for their families. In the field of fashion, female entrepreneurs in resource-rich Africa have significant opportunities through knowledge of natural resources and cultural traditions, as the use of natural fabrics and original designs is one of the latest trends. This book provides a framework for how African women can develop sustainable fashion enterprises, offering an original and lasting contribution to the field of entrepreneurship.
Download or read book Draft White Paper on Small Medium and Micro Enterprises in Botswana written by Botswana and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performance and Competitiveness of Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing Enterprises in Botswana written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the Government of Botswana's past and present notable initiatives to make the environment conducive for SMEs and other businesses through such schemes as the Financial Assistance Policy (FAP) and the Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency (CEDA), recent studies seem to bemoan the existence of a business environment that still needs a lot of improvement. This study is an expedition to find out, using a more inquisitive approach, the state of affairs for doing business vis-à-vis the performance and competitiveness of the SMEs. As a firm-level survey, the study more closely investigates the SME firms in an attempt to answer questions pertaining to their performance and competitiveness
Download or read book Commencement written by Iowa State University and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Operations Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations for 1995 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Technology and Small Medium and Micro Enterprise Development in Botswana written by Richard Anthony Duncombe and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia written by Farrukh Iqbal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia experienced strong economic growth at greatest risk, that too would be useful for strategy formulation purposes, especially in cases in the 1970s with the help of high oil prices, a where employment protection is an important period of stagnation in the 1980s when oil prices declined and another period of strong economic objective. Finally, to the extent that policies can growth after 1986 when substantial trade and alter the probability ofsuccess or failure in coping investment liberalization enabled a dramatic with shocks, it would be useful to know which of policies is most effective and under what surge in labor-intensive manufacturing export set production. Recently, the regional financial crisis conditions. of 1997-1998 dealt Indonesia a severe shock The recent crisis in East Asia provides an from which it has not yet fully recovered. How opportunity to examine the link between industrial structure and economic resilience. The relative have its SMEs done through the twists and turns of the economy in the past quarter century? impact of the crisis by size of firm can be judged Unfortunately, the data needed to track the per in part by the effects on capacity utilization and formance of the SME sector are not as good for employment. The table below summarizes some Indonesia as for many of the other countries in results from a survey sponsored by the World East Asia.
Download or read book Industrial Development Policy for Botswana written by Botswana and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Research and Innovation in the Republic of Botswana written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
