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Correlates of Opportunity Recognition, Design thinking, and Financing Decisions on Entrepreneurial Success among SME owners in Kampala central division, Uganda

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dc.contributor.author Robert, Karuhanga
dc.contributor.author Olutayo K., Osunsan
dc.contributor.author Martin Wilfred, Kawiso
dc.contributor.author Samuel, Pule
dc.contributor.author Moses, Muhwezi
dc.contributor.author Christine, Kabasinguzi
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-11T13:02:28Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-11T13:02:28Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Robert, Karuhanga , et al. (2022) , Correlates of Opportunity Recognition, Design thinking, and Financing Decisions on Entrepreneurial Success among SME owners in Kampala central division, Uganda ; Cavendish University Uganda en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2957-8922
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/150
dc.description.abstract In Africa, Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are notably the engines that drive economic development. Unfortunately, over 32 % of SMEs fail before they celebrate their second birthday. In Uganda, entrepreneurs are creative, recognize opportunities and endeavour to exploit them; however, the failure rate of SMEs is still great. Despite the Ugandan government trying to invest in entrepreneurship programs, SMEs have continued to fail. This study explored the effect of opportunity recognition and design thinking, and financing decisions on entrepreneurial success among SME owners in Kampala, Central division, Uganda. The study adopted a cross-sectional research design and quantitative method. The findings revealed a positive effect of opportunity recognition, design thinking, and financing decisions on entrepreneurial success (F=0.443, Sig = 0.000). The variables explained 55% of the variance of Entrepreneurial success (R Square =0.555; Adjusted R Square = .541). It was concluded that opportunity recognition, design thinking, financing decision strategies are essential for SME success. The study recommends that SMEs should design and implement sustainable and effective opportunity recognition, adopt design thinking, and effective financing decision strategies, which ultimately lead to entrepreneurial success of SMEs. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Cavendish University Uganda en_US
dc.subject Opportunity Recognition en_US
dc.subject Design Thinking en_US
dc.subject Financing Decisions en_US
dc.subject Entrepreneurial Success en_US
dc.subject SMEs en_US
dc.title Correlates of Opportunity Recognition, Design thinking, and Financing Decisions on Entrepreneurial Success among SME owners in Kampala central division, Uganda en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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