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    Financial digitalization, financial resilience and financial well-being of slum households. Acase of Bwaise slum, Kawempe division, Kampala district
    (Makerere University Business School, Uganda, 2024-11-11) Achieng, Ritah Mary
    The Study Emphasizes The Significance Of Financial Well-Being On A Worldwide Scale And Illustrates The Difficulties That Kampala’s Slum Households Confront, Such As Economic Inequality, A Limited Financial Knowledge, Constrained Access To Digital Financial Services. With An Emphasis On Kampala's Bwaise Slum, The Analysis Sought To Look Into The Connections Amongst Financial Digitization, Resilience, And Well-Being Among Slum Households. The Study Targeted Homes In The Bwaise Slum Using A Cross-Sectional Survey Technique That Made Use Of Quantitative Tools. The 379 Representative Houses From Bwaise I, II, And III That Were Proportionately Chosen And Interviewers Were Chosen Using A Stratified Simple Random Selection Procedure. Interviews And Self-Administered Questionnaires Were Used In The Data-Gathering Method To Account For Illiterate Respondents.
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    Entrepreneurial Motivation, Innovation and Resilience among Tours and Travel Enterprises in Kampala District
    (Makerere University Business School, 2023) Namugenyi, Jamila
    The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial motivation, innovation and resilience of tours and travel enterprises in Kampala. This study was a cross-sectional research design along with a quantitative research approach. A sample of 103 tours and travel enterprises was used. Data were obtained from business owners and top manager using questionnaire instrument. Validity of the questionnaire was tested using Content Validity Index, while reliability through pretesting and Cronbach Alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed using SPSS (v25) from which frequency tables, correlation and regression analyses were obtained to interpret results. This study found a positive and significant relationship between entrepreneurial motivation and business resilience. The study also established a positive and significant association between innovation and business resilience among tours and travel enterprises. Furthermore, the study found that entrepreneurial motivation and innovation positively and significantly predict business resilience. Moreover, this study ascertained that entrepreneurial motivation is the better predictor of business resilience among tours and travel enterprises in Kampala. The study concludes that motivations or drives which propel entrepreneurial activity are crucial in ensuring business resilience. It further concludes that innovation plays a crucial role in ensuring business resilience. The study recommends tours and travel enterprises engagement in innovation; and entrepreneurship education to stimulate business resilience. This research suggests future researchers to examine relationship between entrepreneurial motivation and business resilience focusing on motivations other than locus of control, risk taking propensity, and achievement oriented; comparative study examining entrepreneurial motivation, innovation and business resilience; and quantitative and qualitative approach examining entrepreneur motivation, innovation and business resilience among tours and travel enterprises in Uganda.
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    Adoption of E-Commerce among Small Scale Traders with Special Attention to Perceived Benefits and E-Commerce Skills.
    (2023) Nalwoga, Amina
    This study was guided by three main objectives namely, to explore the possible contribution of Perceived benefits in explaining E-commerce adoption, to explore the possible contribution of E-commerce skills in explaining E-commerce adoption, and to explore the interaction effect between Perceived benefits, E-commerce skills and E-commerce adoption. A qualitative approach was employed to collect data from representatives of 14 souvenir shop traders in Kampala. The traders had to have been doing business in the same location for at least three years. Data collection was done through semi-structured interviews and was done inductively. The results indicated that both Perceived benefits and E-commerce skills were considered to be instrumental in E-commerce adoption. Other factors that emerged as important included, cost of E-commerce infrastructure, ease of use, testimonials and the level of security. With the above results, the study can be said to have identified some of the success factors that can explain the adoption of E-commerce among souvenir shop owners.
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    Cognitive Flexibility, Entrepreneurial Innovativeness and Entrepreneurial Action.
    (2023) Nabirye, Barbara
    Entrepreneurial actions are unearthed during times of turmoil to stimulate business performance. Such actions drive the innovation of new products and services in an organization that awaken demand and keep a firm operational (Furlotti et al., 2019). Since entrepreneurial actions are activities known to be practiced pre start up (innovation) and actual start up, they require the presence of individuals who are flexible in decision-making process in order to keep a firm in a stable state amidst continuous challenges (Giones et al., 2020; Caliskan & Lounsbury, 2022). Entrepreneurial actions enable SMEs to achieve their specified goals as they adapt to the changing environment and reduce the risks that may occur (Sproul et al., 2019). Enhancing entrepreneurial innovativeness and cognitive flexibility among individuals augment the rate of entrepreneurial actions that manifest in organizations (Yinus et al., 2019; Shepherd et al., 2020). In the existence of several scholarly works and the interest of improving entrepreneurial actions in firms, globally issues of SMEs failures are rampant especially during hard times. For example, according to Engidaw (2022), 43% of SMEs worldwide either closed temporarily or permanently because of the hard times as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. Gourinchas et al. (2021) in their study about the 17 European countries established that Italy had the highest failure rate of SMEs at 22.6%. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Report (2022) shows that SMEs in different regions and countries were hit differently by the pandemic. In Latin America a total of 2.6 million SMEs either permanently or temporarily closed, in America 1/5 of SMEs closed down temporarily and 1/3 closed permanently, in China 80% of SMEs closed down in 2020, Indonesia 49%, Thailand 71% Philippines 61%, UK 24% in 2020, India 47% and Bangladesh 50% of SMEs closed down. In Ethiopia, around 30% of the SMEs were hit severely and were forced to be closed down. In Uganda, more than 55% of SMEs were harshly hit and forced closed down (Kyeyune, 2022).
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    Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Support, Ecosystem Accessibility and Productivity of Incubatees in Kampala-Uganda.
    (2023) Arinda, Albert
    The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between Ecosystem dimensions and productivity of incubatees in Kampala-Uganda. This study focused on Entrepreneurial ecosystem support and ecosystem accessibility as independent variables. On the other hand, productivity of incubatees was the dependent variable. The study used a cross sectional research design with a sample size of 123 incubatees from 6 business incubators from within Kampala. revealed a significant and positive relationship between entrepreneurial ecosystem support, Ecosystem accessibility and productivity of incubtees. Regression findings revealed that a combination of entrepreneurial ecosystem support and ecosystem accessibility predicated up to 41.9% (adjusted R square = 0.419) of the observed variance in productivity of incubatees. The findings revealed that entrepreneurial ecosystem support enables incubatees to ably identify and develop new markets with ease. Also, Ecosystem accessibility enables incubatees to adopt new technologies in its new product development initiatives. It was recommended that both internal and external incubation support services should be strengthened. Furthermore, the study recommends that the incubation centers should embark on changing the incubatees attitude and mindset towards networking, knowledge about networks and perceived benefits from the network.