The Role of Gender and Personal Traits in Determining Business Performance of Ghana’s Informal Slum Businesses
Purpose: It has been established that most informal businesses in Ghana are performing well and earn incomes higher than the poverty line threshold. The current study, therefore, aims at ascertaining how one’s gender and personal traits (locus of control) affect business performance. Design/meth...
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| author | Luther King Junior Zogli Bongani Innocent Dlamini Albert Tchey Agbenyegah Nyane Ezekiel Macdonald Mofokeng Martin Mulunda Kabange |
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Purpose: It has been established that most informal businesses in Ghana are performing well and earn incomes higher than the poverty line threshold. The current study, therefore, aims at ascertaining how one’s gender and personal traits (locus of control) affect business performance.
Design/methodology/approach: To this effect, cross sectional quantitative data was obtained from 344 participants in two informal settlements in Ghana using a structured interview. The independent sample T-test was used to analyse the data.
Findings: It was found out that there was no significant difference between the performances of male or female owned businesses. Furthermore, it was also discovered that there was a significant difference in the business performance of operators based on locus of control.
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| spelling | doaj.art-92c35684225247e5b7f01b1f769df2382022-12-22T03:01:36ZengLPPM of Narotama University SurabayaIJEBD (International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Development)2597-47502597-47852021-09-014510.29138/ijebd.v4i5.1436The Role of Gender and Personal Traits in Determining Business Performance of Ghana’s Informal Slum BusinessesLuther King Junior Zogli0Bongani Innocent DlaminiAlbert Tchey AgbenyegahNyane Ezekiel Macdonald MofokengMartin Mulunda KabangeDurban University of Technology Purpose: It has been established that most informal businesses in Ghana are performing well and earn incomes higher than the poverty line threshold. The current study, therefore, aims at ascertaining how one’s gender and personal traits (locus of control) affect business performance. Design/methodology/approach: To this effect, cross sectional quantitative data was obtained from 344 participants in two informal settlements in Ghana using a structured interview. The independent sample T-test was used to analyse the data. Findings: It was found out that there was no significant difference between the performances of male or female owned businesses. Furthermore, it was also discovered that there was a significant difference in the business performance of operators based on locus of control. https://jurnal.narotama.ac.id/index.php/ijebd/article/view/1436GenderInformal sectorlocus of controlPersonal traitsSlums |
| spellingShingle | Luther King Junior Zogli Bongani Innocent Dlamini Albert Tchey Agbenyegah Nyane Ezekiel Macdonald Mofokeng Martin Mulunda Kabange The Role of Gender and Personal Traits in Determining Business Performance of Ghana’s Informal Slum Businesses IJEBD (International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Development) Gender Informal sector locus of control Personal traits Slums |
| title | The Role of Gender and Personal Traits in Determining Business Performance of Ghana’s Informal Slum Businesses |
| title_full | The Role of Gender and Personal Traits in Determining Business Performance of Ghana’s Informal Slum Businesses |
| title_fullStr | The Role of Gender and Personal Traits in Determining Business Performance of Ghana’s Informal Slum Businesses |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Gender and Personal Traits in Determining Business Performance of Ghana’s Informal Slum Businesses |
| title_short | The Role of Gender and Personal Traits in Determining Business Performance of Ghana’s Informal Slum Businesses |
| title_sort | role of gender and personal traits in determining business performance of ghana s informal slum businesses |
| topic | Gender Informal sector locus of control Personal traits Slums |
| url | https://jurnal.narotama.ac.id/index.php/ijebd/article/view/1436 |
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