DETERMINANTS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FIRMS IN KENYA
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https://doi.org/10.47672/ije.250Keywords:
social entrepreneurship, financial access, entrepreneurial culture, management, technologyAbstract
Purpose: The general objective of the study was to assess the determinants of performance of social entrepreneurship firms in Kenya.
Methodology: The study adopted a descriptive research design. The total population was 448 employees of Iko toilet and Care Kenya. The sample size was 79 employees of Iko toilet and CARE Kenya who were selected using stratified random sampling. This sample was selected using R software. The raw data obtained from the field was coded, scrutinized, organized and edited to enhance accuracy and hasten analysis by the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). SPSS assisted in summarizing the data descriptively using frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviation. In order to test the relationship between the dependent and independent variables, inferential statistics that is spearman’s rank correlation r and regression analysis was used.
Results: The study found that financial access, entrepreneurial culture, management and technology have a positive and significant relationship with performance of social entrepreneurship firms.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommends that the government should formulate measure to ensure that social entrepreneurship firms are facilitated to gain financial access. In addition, the banking institutions should prolong the loan repayments periods so that the entrepreneurship firms can get enough financial access.
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