Abstract
This study is conducted to assess the determinants of women entrepreneurs’ performance: the case of Hawassa City Administration, Ethiopia. The study employed an explanatory research design with quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The required data were collected from 278 selected women entrepreneurs by adopting a multistage sampling technique. The data collected through questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS software version 21. Inferential statistics such as correlation and multiple linear regression were applied. The data collected through key informant interview was analyzed qualitatively using narration for triangulation. The findings of the study showed that educated women had better entrepreneurship performance since they can easily use technologies and can get management experience easily. In the same way, women entrepreneurs experience to increase their profitability. Likewise, having sufficient start up capital for business, access to credit to expand an existing business, having sufficient working capital, and having had collateral to get credit are significant factors that affect women entrepreneurs’ performance. Equally, having high production capacity due to available capital, delivering a product that meets customers need with a fair price, having convenient display room and selling premises, and having good market linkages are significant factors that affect women entrepreneurs’ performance. Furthermore, having the desire for achievement, independence, wealth and having self-discovery and job satisfaction are significant determinants of women entrepreneurs’ performance. Therefore, the researcher recommends Hawassa city administration in collaboration with other NGO who were working with women should give continuous training to enable them to be more productive. Likewise, the financial institutions in the city should arrange long-term financial credit for women entrepreneurs. Keywords: Women Enterprenuers, Performance, Hawassa City DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/11-22-02 Publication date : August 31 st 2019
Highlights
Entrepreneurship could be a dynamic phenomenon that localizes economies, enables entrepreneurs, establish business, and creates opportunities that attract other businesses either as suppliers or clients or even competitors (Nkurunziza, 2012)
The results suggest that the most influencing factor is industry (SMEs) characteristics followed by entrepreneurial goals and motivations (EGM), and legal factors
According to Amanuel (2012), a research conducted in Hosanna town at Hadiya Zone on challenges and opportunities of women entrepreneurs arrived to the following findings
Summary
Entrepreneurship could be a dynamic phenomenon that localizes economies, enables entrepreneurs, establish business, and creates opportunities that attract other businesses either as suppliers or clients or even competitors (Nkurunziza, 2012). According to Amanuel (2012), a research conducted in Hosanna town at Hadiya Zone on challenges and opportunities of women entrepreneurs arrived to the following findings They include discriminatory environment of women entrepreneurs in the study area, limitation on the service delivery of financial institutions, the issue of collaterals in MFI limited access to credit, limitation of searching new market by women entrepreneurs, training gap on basic business skills, self- employment problem, management skill gap of women entrepreneurs, lack of book keeping, lack of working premise facilitation by government, shortage of infrastructure facilities, limitation on grace periods for newly launched women entrepreneurs organization are what are recommended by the researcher based on his findings. Questionnaire and key informant interview were employed to collect quantitative data and key informant interview were employed for collecting qualitative data
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