http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7832 2026-05-15T15:16:59Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7895 Youth Intentions on Career Choice on Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria Ozigbo, Nathaniel C Youth entrepreneurship refers to the process of enhancing entrepreneurial skills and knowledge through training and institutional building programmes. Entrepreneurship education is aimed at accelerating the base of entrepreneur in order to hasten the pace at which new ventures are created, employment generation and economic development. This study examined the need to promote youth entrepreneurs as a means to reduce unemployment and to create a conducive environment for the entrepreneurial activities to strive. The study was empirical in nature and employed a Bartlett’s test of sphericity which yielded a significant p-value of 0.0001, indicating that the correlation between variables were sufficient for factor analysis. The exploratory factor analysis combined with the interpretability provided evidence of construct validity. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient provided the internal consistency. The resulting Cronbach’s alpha was above the minimum acceptable levels of reliability. The study noted that the challenges faced by Nigerian youths were as a result of bureaucratic business environment and therefore recommended among others that academic institutions, private sectors and government should work together to provide training needs to young entrepreneurs to share information in the areas of financial, market information, equipment and raw material supplies. Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7894 Women's Entrepreneurship: Is the Way of Managing Work-Life Balance with Employees Patil, Prachita; Deshpande, Yogesh Entrepreneurship has emerged as a global concept with the new phenomenon and is contributing to the economic development of the country. In India, entrepreneurship is considered as an employment opportunity for everyone and women are also in the race. Entrepreneurship in today's date not only remains' a men's bastion but now women are competing them for their self- esteem, independence, economic necessity and for society. With the upcoming of various government schemes, Entrepreneurship Development Program, Training, and Workshops women are coming forefront as indeed a multi-balancing nature and taking the advantage of entrepreneurship. Women as a successful entrepreneur are considered now an overburdened, unfit, and stressful like the person as the main problem facing for them is work-life balance (WLB). Women with taking new challenges, to balance family, business and employees they are stretching themselves at par for achieving their success in every field but with the poor work-life balance, they are finding it extremely difficult to compete in each and every area. This paper talks overall about major issues related to work-life scale with employees handling business under the leadership of women. A study of 80 women entrepreneurs working in various sectors was taken to find out the problem they are facing in work-life scale with respect to employees. A systematic stratified sampling was done to illustrate the work-life scale between starts up and established women and comparing women as a single and married. The generated data were subjected to standard statistical procedures, such as t-test of significance. Each of the statements possessed adequate reliability and validity. The present study would be helpful for management consultants, academicians, and women as an entrepreneur, human resource professionals to understand various WLB issues faced by Indian women entrepreneurs. Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7893 Motives of Women Entrepreneurs P, Dashora; N, Khandalwal; S, Jain; S, Purohit Women entrepreneurship is a vital element of strong economic growth of the nation. Although women entrepreneurship is the best way of self-sufficiency and poverty alleviation but the task is quite complex, risky and full of uncertainties. Motivation can deal this situation in a better way as it converts negative into positive attitude. It also helps women entrepreneurs to work in a desired way to attain their entrepreneurial objectives. The study envisages factors motivating the women to become entrepreneur. Self-constructed instrument was applied for assessing motivating factors in three sectors. The sample comprises of total 270 women entrepreneurs, 90 from each sector i.e. manufacturing, trading and service. Findings revealed that all the women entrepreneurs were motivated by individual, social, economic, work and other core motives. Individual motives were chief motive for women engaged in training and hobby institutes. Social motives affected more to the women having beauty parlors and slimming centers. Garment traders were mainly motivated by economic motives. Sub-Sector wise findings showed that garment manufacturers were highly motivated which was, followed by subjects of training and hobby centers. Overall, it was found that traders were having highest motivation and manufacturers were least motivated. Thus, motivation level of active & emerging women entrepreneurs must be improved for the success of enterprises. Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/7892 Entrepreneurial Competencies: Antecedents and Outcomes Wani, Arshad Nabi; Butt, Khursheed Ahmad The strategic importance of small businesses has been acknowledged by scholars worldwide and in India these small businesses have been significantly contributing to the economic development. The focus of the present study is to highlight the importance of the entrepreneurial competencies and the development of these competencies. This was done by the competency assessment of 302 successful entrepreneurs operating in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. Further the effect of various background characteristics like education, industrial and entrepreneurial experience on the entrepreneurial competency was analyzed using t- test and ANOVA. It was found that entrepreneurial and industrial experience significantly influence the competencies. it was also found that entrepreneurial competencies have a strong impact on the business performance. The findings of the study highlights the importance of learning in the overall process of entrepreneurship. The study sends a strong message regarding the training and development of the prospective entrepreneurs. Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini 2019-02-22T00:00:00Z