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dc.contributor.author | Lekhanya, Lawrence Mpele | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-12T13:46:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-12T13:46:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Lekhanya, L.M. 2015. The role of Universities in promoting social entrepreneurship in South Africa. Journal of Governance and Regulation. 4(3) : 67-71. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2220-9352 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10321/1314 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Social entrepreneurship can help to reduce socio-economic problems facing many countries including South Africa. Also it can be used as a strategic tool in building social cohesion in country. This paper aimed to examine the role of Universities in promoting social entrepreneurship in South Africa. The study also look assess the support that universities are providing to social entrepreneurship and to evaluate the extend of the support. The paper also analyses most strategies used by South African universities to help the development of social entrepreneurship. Mix approaches of qualitative and quantitative techniques were employed for data collection. The primary data was collected from six universities in South Africa where two comprehensive universities, two universities of Technologies from KwaZulu -Natal province and two comprehensive universities in Gauteng province were chosen for sample for this study. The sample consisted of 40 respondents made up of deans of faculties, heads of departments, and director of social entrepreneurship and head of social entrepreneurship department respectively according to structure of each university. Combination of structured qualitative and five –point Likert scale questionnaire were emailed to the respondents to complete. The results reveal that most of respondents are not involved in social entrepreneurship activities, or any entrepreneurship development programs. The findings also indicate that some respondents they had no clue about social entrepreneurship that their universities are involved in. the study was limited by exploratory nature. Therefore, generalization must be done with care. Further research should aim to target large sample and include other academic staff rather than focusing only on the deans and heads of departments. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 5 p | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Virtus Interpress | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of governance and regulation (Print) | en_US |
dc.subject | Entrepreneurship | en_US |
dc.subject | Universities | en_US |
dc.subject | Social | en_US |
dc.subject | Role | en_US |
dc.subject | Promoting | en_US |
dc.title | The role of Universities in promoting social entrepreneurship in South Africa | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
local.sdg | SDG08 | - |
local.sdg | SDG17 | - |
item.openairetype | Article | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
Appears in Collections: | Research Publications (Management Sciences) |
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