Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment of Small-scale Agro-processors in South Africa: Implications for Small Business Development and Entrepreneurship Research | Chapter 7 | An Overview on Business, Management and Economics Research Vol. 2

 Entrepreneurship has existed gaining recognition and attention across the earth as an essential source of economic progress and employment production. Furthermore, entrepreneurship has progressively attracted the governments and administrative institution's attention in current years. This stage's purpose was to analyse entrepreneurialism's influence on the economic authorization of small-scale agro-processors in South Africa.  This research was carried out in the five provinces of South Africa of Gauteng, Limpopo, North West, Free State and Mpumalanga. Moreover, the study met on the influence of entrepreneurship on the financial empowerment of tiny agro-processors in those provinces. A concurrent assorted-methods research design consisting of a almost-structured inquiry with 503 tiny agro-processors was conducted. A layered sampling design was used, and data were analysed utilizing a multiple reversion method. The study establish that entrepreneurship considerably influences the economic empowerment of tiny agro-processors compared to money and infrastructure. The verdicts of this study can inform policymakers, government instrumentalities and scholars that approach to market and undertaking costs are essential entrepreneurship limits which will expedite the economic empowerment of tiny agro-processors in South Africa. The key limitation of the study is that the research was only transported in five provinces of South Africa and secondly, the skilled is a small-capacity of the population, which create the results inaccurate cause the data is not enough.

Author(s) Details:

Benjamin Manasoe,
Department of Sustainable Food Systems and Development, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa and Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.

Victor Mbulaheni Mmbengwa,
Department of Sustainable Food Systems and Development, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Joseph Nembo Lekunze,
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Business School, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

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