Pub Date : 2023-12-30DOI: 10.1177/09708464231213227
Oluwaseun Titi Adeosun
Despite the fact that the pandemic has made entrepreneurs out of people, especially females who venture into diverse small-scale enterprises to cope with the residue of the pandemic, the majority of the enterprises seem to be dwindling and stagnant. The knowledge of accounting will provide a platform for the effective administration and management of these enterprises. This study specifically probes the methods used in the management of finances, inquires about the continuity plan and explores the contribution of entity theory to the success of females in small-scale enterprises in the post-COVID-19 era. The study adopts an exploratory research design. A mixed-method sampling technique was adopted (multi-stage and judgemental). In-depth interviews were used to collect data from 36 participants who commence their business during and after the ease of the lockdown in southwestern, Nigeria. Findings revealed that females in small-scale enterprises lack accounting knowledge. This, coupled with the motivation of the establishment of their businesses has predominantly affected its administration and management which has led to their lack of strategic plan for the continuity of their businesses. Despite their lack of knowledge of entity theory, some of them have been applying it in the administration of their businesses. It is therefore recommended that irrespective of the motivation behind the establishment of their businesses, a proper book-keeping record should be maintained. This will enable them to track their profit and growth over time, enlighten them to be conservative with their finances and assist them to develop a strategic plan for their business continuity.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1177/09708464231209449
Treemurutulu B
This study aims to examine how demographic factors of entrepreneurs affect the managerial competencies of small businesses in South Andaman and to measure the managerial competencies according to demographic features such as education levels, experience, age, marital status and gender. The study used a primary survey sample size of 338 respondents of entrepreneurs of micro and small businesses. This study used statistics of the Chi-square test, independent samples t-test and ANOVA. The finding shows that the business experience and education qualification of the entrepreneurs played a significant role in the managerial competencies of MSE owners in the Islands region. This article also found that a majority of respondents interested in selling their products mainly targeted customers in South Andaman. The study will be helpful to small enterprises and implementing government agencies in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The study’s main contributions to demographic variables of entrepreneurs bolster the business competencies in the Islands region.
本研究旨在探讨企业家的人口统计因素如何影响南安达曼省小型企业的管理能力，并根据教育水平、经验、年龄、婚姻状况和性别等人口统计特征来衡量管理能力。本研究使用了 338 名小微企业创业者作为主要调查样本。本研究使用了卡方检验、独立样本 t 检验和方差分析等统计方法。研究结果表明，企业家的商业经验和教育资格对群岛地区微型企业主的管理能力起着重要作用。本文还发现，大多数有意销售产品的受访者主要将目标客户锁定在南安达曼岛。这项研究将对安达曼和尼科巴群岛的小型企业和政府执行机构有所帮助。本研究对企业家人口变量的主要贡献增强了群岛地区的商业能力。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1177/09708464231209456
S. Dey, Debabrata Sharma, Sucheesmita Dash
Economic development is significantly influenced by the entrepreneurial process. Economic growth is fuelled by entrepreneurial activity; thus, academic institutions are under more pressure than ever to encourage students to think like entrepreneurs. This study tries to focus on analysing how entrepreneurship education is affecting the development of entrepreneurial intent among female students of Odisha. The study analysed the impact of entrepreneurship education in terms of perception of entrepreneurship education, perceived relevance and adequacy of curriculum and perceived competence of the lecturing team on student entrepreneurial intention. Our study showed a positive and significant association between entrepreneurship education and female entrepreneurial intention. It was also evident from the study that entrepreneurship education has a positive significant impact on female entrepreneurial intention. Therefore, it is imperative to reform and revolutionise the educational system for educated youth to stop seeking employment and start creating it instead.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1177/09708464231209451
Simran Sikka, Jitender Kumar
The purpose of this study report is to identify the brand awareness of Indian millennials towards the brand personalities of apparel brands. The idea of brand personality has recently received a lot of attention as it is an essential component of the symbolic and emotional traits of a business. Consumers’ perceptions of a brand’s human qualities are referred to as its ‘brand personality’. The utilisation of brand personality connections by marketers and advertisers can help them create more effective strategies for showcasing products in a way that appeals to consumers on an emotional level. Brand personality is important from both the advertiser’s and the consumer’s perspectives. Because of this, it is now being used more often to change customer behaviour. The primary sources from which the data were acquired were surveyed. Non-probability sampling techniques were used by the researcher. Using a survey technique, the researcher obtained information from the millennials. A total of 450 Generation Y consumers provided data. In this study, Chi-square was used to show the significant disparities in brand personality awareness among millennials. The survey found that urban school and college students and independent earnings individuals who earn a fair living had a propensity to be more aware of brand personality.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/09708464231207928
Jai Ram Meena
This article examines the productive performance of the Indian food manufacturing industry measured in terms of technical efficiency (TE) of its 13 sub-sectors under the organised sector. For estimating their TE, it makes the use of the Cobb–Douglas production technology with the truncated normal distribution of stochastic inefficiency term ( Stevenson, 1980 ) via Jondrow et al. (1982) estimator of cross-sectional data. Data are sourced from the Annual Survey of Industries, 2017–2018. The results show that this industry, as a whole, observed 92% TE in 2017–2018, but among its sub-sectors, it varied between 100% and 74%, that is, they exhibited differential productive performance. Modern sub-sectors, such as fruits and vegetables, edible oils, bakery and beverage products, realised frontier-level efficiency, while sugar and starch products were identified as marginal performers in the industry. The robustness of the results is confirmed by the non-parametric estimates of TE from the data envelopment analysis. The results are expected to be useful in framing specific policies for these two different groups of food processors. In the case of sub-sectors performing below the frontier, policy actions aiming at pure technical and scale efficiencies, such as capacity building, research, skill programmes, and extension activities, need to be operationalised, while for sub-sectors performing at the frontier, only technological progress needs to be prioritised.
本文研究了印度食品制造业的生产绩效，以有组织部门下 13 个子部门的技术效率（TE）来衡量。为估算其技术效率，本文通过 Jondrow 等人（1982 年）的横截面数据估算器，使用了随机无效率项截断正态分布的柯布-道格拉斯生产技术（Stevenson，1980 年）。数据来源于《2017-2018 年工业年度调查报告》。结果显示，2017-2018 年该行业整体观察到的 TE 为 92%，但在其子行业中，TE 在 100%和 74% 之间变化，即它们表现出不同的生产绩效。现代子行业，如水果和蔬菜、食用油、烘焙和饮料产品，实现了前沿水平的效率，而糖和淀粉产品则被确定为该行业的边缘表现者。数据包络分析对 TE 的非参数估计证实了结果的稳健性。预计这些结果将有助于为这两类不同的食品加工商制定具体的政策。对于业绩低于前沿的次级行业，需要实施旨在提高纯技术和规模效率的政策行动，如能力建设、研究、技能计划和推广活动，而对于业绩处于前沿的次级行业，只需优先考虑技术进步。
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