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    Attitudes and Entrepreneurial Orientation of Government funded co-operatives towards social entrepreneurship in the Gauteng Province
    (2017) Nambodia, Sindiswa Olga
    The intention of the study was to conduct descriptive research that assessed the present state of co-operatives, which includes their understanding of the concept of social entrepreneurship, and to further describe and measure the extent of the elements of entrepreneurial attitudes that exist in the co-operatives. It focused on the existence of entrepreneurial orientation and its influence on the co-operatives’ business, and critically identified the perceived barriers to engaging in social entrepreneurship. The study tested the propositions and linked to the following constructs: entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial orientation, and perceived constraints towards social entrepreneurship. Given that a valuation was envisioned as a product, the research was directed from a positivist approach and therefore the quantitative research method was engaged. The sample population comprised directors of co-operatives and the sampling frame was active members of registered co-operatives. A non-probability sampling technique was utilised as this group of directors serves as a connection between top management members and lower active members of the co-operatives. The research instrument that was used was the questionnaire survey, which was adapted from Morris and Covin (1989) and Kuratko and Hornsby (2013). The data were analysed using factor analysis and correlation techniques. The results of the study indicate that there is an awareness of the concept of social entrepreneurship in the co-operatives sector. There is evidence of positive attitudes towards social entrepreneurship among the co-operative members. The outcome of the study is that there seems to be a certain level of innovativeness, risk-taking and pro-activeness in co-operatives in Gauteng in South Africa. Furthermore, the results also proved that there is a positive and strong relationship between the external variable that is government funding, and the four EO dimensions.
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    Corporate entrepreneurial behaviour, organisational architecture and the entrepreneurial process
    (2017) Coetzee, Riaan
    The prominence of international entrepreneurship in the global economy is of great importance and interest to researchers, entrepreneurs and governments alike. International business and accelerated internationalisation focus on multinational companies as well as entrepreneurial ventures for growth and innovative collaborations across borders in the global environment. The dominant logic for any corporate organisation today is to ensure that it facilitates and fosters an ecosystem that is conducive to innovation. The concept of generating opportunity through creativity and exploiting it with innovation, has proved to be extremely difficult, yet valuable. Innovation and control systems balance each other to ensure a pro-entrepreneurial organisational climate. Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has received substantial attention in entrepreneurship research, which expands and develops a cumulative body of knowledge. The CE strategy is conceptualised by identifying key principles and components. This research is formulated to investigate the pro-entrepreneurial organisational architecture, as well as the entrepreneurial process and behaviour that individually and collectively encourage entrepreneurial orientation (EO). The relationships between the identified variables and moderators in a bank in the financial sector of South Africa are measured. Stevenson’s (1983) dimensions of entrepreneurial management, defined as a set of opportunity-based constructs, was measured by the EM measurement scale. Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) was assessed with the Miller/Covin- Slevin scale and linked to the entrepreneurial or innovative process of the company. Analysis of 178 samples (n=2229) indicated positive relationships between the variables, confirming theories in literature on the effects or predictions of the elements in the CE strategy on each other. The effect of success or failure in implementation indicated no moderating effect. Recommendations to address in future research are suggested.
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