| Entrepreneurship
Development among Women: A Case Study of Self Help Groups in Srikakulam District,
Andhra Pradesh
-- Shanmukha
Rao Padala
Women
entrepreneurship development is an essential part of human resource development.
The development of women entrepreneurship is very low in India, especially in
the rural areas. In advanced countries, there is a phenomenon of increase in the
number of self-employed women after the Second World War. The scheme of Self Help
Groups(SHGs), launched in 1982-83, inaugurated an era for systematically organizing
women in groups for providing them opportunities of self-employment on a sustained
basis in India. Several thousands of rural women from the length and breadth of
the country participate in this program, and takeup a number of trades under the
Self Help Group banner. Poverty alleviation is the ultimate goal of any nation.
Studies have shown that the delivery of micro finance to the poor is productive,
effective and less costly, if they are organized into SHGs. The SHG movement in
India in general, and Andhra Pradesh in particular, has metamorphosed the rural
economic scenario perceptibly. ©
2007. IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Women
Micro Technopreneurs of WWF, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
-- Shanthi
Nachiappan and Santhi N This
article explores the role of developing agencies like non-profit organizations—in
India, they are called Non-government Organizations (NGOs)—in the economic
empowerment of women. One such NGO is Working Women's Forum (WWF), which has brought
in gender equality among the economically weaker, socially down-trodden and less
educated women in Chennai. This article proves that self-confidence and willingness
to learn a technical skill have transformed the participating women into micro
technopreneurs. They have acquired the elementary knowledge about technology and
have used it in their technical ventures and gained fruitful results. These women
micro technopreneurs and WWF are true role models for others to emulate. ©
2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Career
Aspirations of Management Students with Special Reference to Entrepreneurship
as Career
-- Naresh
Singh and Ashish Mitra This
exploratory study was conducted with a convenient sample of 140 management students
of IBS, Gurgaon to determine their aspirations with special
reference to entrepreneurship as a career option. The findings of the study reveals
that there is a strong correlation between the career to be opted as entrepreneurship
by students in the future and the one preferred by their families. However, there
is a weak relationship between future career plan of students and fathers' occupation.
©
2007 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Role
of Information and Communication Technologies in the Enhancing
Processes of Entrepreneurship and Globalization in Indian
Software Companies
-- Venkataramana
Gajjala
Information
and Communication Technologies (ICTs) enable the hitherto untradable services
to be traded internationally, just like commodities, via the Internet and the
telephone—the recent outsourcing of software programming, airline revenue
accounting, insurance claims and call centers to India, is a good example. Consequently,
ICTs have enabled not only small and medium-sized firms but even start-ups to
globalize their operations. For instance, Silicon Valley-based technology start-ups,
owned and managed by foreign-born entrepreneurs, have successfully exploited India's
software talent. This paper investigates the close relationship between ICTs,
globalization and entrepreneurship. A theoretical basis for analysis is developed
using the innovation theory to study the link between immigrant entrepreneurship
and the processes of globalization, shaped through the use and proliferation of
ICTs in developing countries. The theory is illustrated using seven case studies.
This paper adds to the growing body of literature that emphasizes the aforementioned
link as compared to the existing studies that have focused exclusively on the
behavior of multinational corporations and national markets.
©
2006 Venkataramana Gajjala. This article was first published
in The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing
Countries (www.ejisdc.org).
Reprinted with permission.
Case
Study
Vikram
Akula's SKS Microfinance Pvt. Ltd. : The Making of a Successful
Microfinance Institution
-- Sumit
Kumar Chaudhuri and Rupesh Kumar Madhogaria
Vikram Akula set up
SKS Microfinance Pvt. Ltd. (SKS) in 1998 to provide microfinance to the poorest
sections of the Indian society that earns a per capita less than INR 6,000 ($120)
per year. Negating the traditional assumption that microcredit is not a viable
business in developing countries, SKS brought in a new microfinancing model in
India, which is profitable and self-sustaining. By reducing costs through prevention
of wastage at each step of the loan process, coupled with innovative technologies
and an efficient management system, Akula has transformed SKS into one of the
fastest growing microfinance institutions in the world. By attracting capital
from global financial institutions like Citibank and through its automated MIS
system and its award-winning SmartCards Pilot Project, SKS aims to grow at 400%
per annum in the future. The basic objective of the case is to understand the
concept of microfinancing and its need in a developing economy like India; to
analyze the role of innovative technologies in the growth of social ventures;
and to debate on the self-sustainability and future growth prospects of SKS in
India. ©
2006 IBS Case Development Center. All Rights Reserved. Research
Summary
The
Normative Context for Women's Participation in Entrepreneurship:
A Multicountry Study
-- Summarized
by Madhuri Modekurti
This
is a study that analyzes at the participation of women in entrepreneurship and
examines the impact of specific norms of different countries that support women's
entrepreneurship. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) women
basically represent a largely untapped pool of entrepreneurial talent and their
level of involvement in entrepreneurial activities in comparison to the men is
substantially less. GEM also found that the males' rates of entrepreneurial activity
are three times more than that of females in some countries. ©
2007 Ingrid Verheul, Martin Carree and Roy Thurik. All Rights Reserved. IUP holds the copyright for the summary.
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