Women entrepreneurs in a Botswana context: drivers for success
Women entrepreneurs in a Botswana context: drivers for success
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博茨瓦纳的女企业家：成功的驱动力
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10.7190/shu-thesis-00549
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Duduzile Beryl Khupe
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在这项研究中，探讨了博茨瓦纳成功的女企业家如何驾驭创业经验，因为它往往涉及阻碍女企业家成功参与经济环境的障碍和挑战。新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）疫情的爆发进一步恶化了女企业家的处境。本研究采用质的研究框架，以激励理论和反脆弱性理论的思维模式为基础。研究采用了访谈法，以现象学和社会建构主义为基础，以博茨瓦纳和南非的15名女企业家为样本。NVivo软件用于编码和数据分析。研究还询问了有助于女企业家在复杂的世界中取得成功的使能因素，包括复原力和敏捷性。对妇女创业进行了文献审查，并重新审视了创业理论。调查了妇女创业、增长心态、灵活性和经济增长之间的因果关系，以及确定消除挑战和进入障碍的手段，最后根据实地研究的结果和结论提出了建议。研究的主要结果是，成功的女性采用了与积极心态相关的创业心态，并利用敏捷性/抗脆弱性在不利的经济条件下生存。此外，获得资金仍然是博茨瓦纳女企业家面临的最大挑战。精神和宗教也被认为是建立商业企业的一个激励因素。企业家精神越来越受到企业家研究者的关注。女企业家遇到的主要障碍仍然是获得资本的机会，尽管研究中使用的两个国家的形式不同。
In this study, an exploration of how successful women entrepreneurs in Botswana navigate the entrepreneurship experience was undertaken, as it often involves barriers and challenges that stifle women entrepreneurs participating successfully in the economic environment. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic aggravated the conditions even further for women entrepreneurs. A qualitative framework was adopted for the research, grounded in Theory of Motivation and the mindset of the Anti-Fragility Theory. An interview method was employed for the study, underpinned by phenomenology and social constructionism, with a sample of fifteen women entrepreneurs based in Botswana and South Africa. NVivo Software was used for coding and data analysis. The enablers, including resilience and agility, which contribute to the success of women entrepreneurs, while they navigate the complex world in which they operate, were also interrogated in the study. A literature review of women entrepreneurship was undertaken, and theories of entrepreneurship were revisited. The causal link between women entrepreneurship, the growth mindset, agility and economic growth was investigated as well as the means to identify the removal of challenges and barriers to entry, concluding with recommendations based on the outcome and findings of the field research. The main findings of the research were that successful women adopt an entrepreneurial mindset associated with a positive mindset and use agility/anti-fragility to survive adverse economic conditions. In addition, access to finance remains the biggest challenge that women entrepreneurs face in Botswana. Spirituality and religion were also found to be a motivating factor to establish a business venture. Entrepreneurial spirituality is drawing increasing attention from researchers of entrepreneurship. The key pitfall that women entrepreneurs encounter remains access to capital, although in different forms for the two countries used in the study.