An assessment of the entrepreneurial status of small engineering-based enterprises in Tanzania: the case of selected districts in Dar es Salaam and Pwani regions
| dc.contributor.author | Mwinuka, Zacharia Michael | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-13T19:26:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-13T19:26:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description | Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, Class Mark (THS EAF HB615.T34M854) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This study explored the factors that characterize entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs amongst small engineering-and/or vocational-based operators in selected districts of Dar es Salaam and Pwani regions, Tanzania. The main problem was lack of coherent understanding as to whether engineering-and/or vocational-based business operators are entrepreneurial or not. In popular talking and African entrepreneurship literature, the business operators and entrepreneurs are used interchangeably. Since there was not a complete sampling frame for small engineering- and/or vocational-based business operators in the study areas, purposive judgmental sampling techniques were used to identify respondents in a wide variety of activities located in popular vocation and small engineering and/ vocation-based business concentration zones. Structured questionnaire and a checklist of positive statements in a general enterprising tendencies test sheet were used to collect data. Ms Excel was used to analyze data. The results show that despite being in seemingly creative industry, significant majority (93.3%) of the respondents had no sufficient creative tendencies as per general enterprising tendencies test. Arguably, as one would expect about 56.7% of the respondents had general need for achievement while others had less than 50% of other entrepreneurial tendencies, namely calculated risk taking (13.3%), drive and determination (30%) and need for autonomy and independence (16.7%). The findings suggest that most small business operators do not purposely think of becoming entrepreneurial. In this regard, they usually do things on routine basis as determined by circumstances. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mwinuka, Z. M (2009) An assessment of the entrepreneurial status of small engineering-based enterprises in Tanzania: the case of selected districts in Dar es Salaam and Pwani regions, Master dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://41.86.178.5:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/11005 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Dar es Salaam | en_US |
| dc.subject | Entrepreneurship | en_US |
| dc.subject | Small businesses | en_US |
| dc.subject | Business enterprises | en_US |
| dc.title | An assessment of the entrepreneurial status of small engineering-based enterprises in Tanzania: the case of selected districts in Dar es Salaam and Pwani regions | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |