The impact of entrepreneurial self efficiency and enabling business environment on business performance of female-led handicraft manufacturing SMEs in Sri Lanka

• Main Authors: A., Aruna Shanta, Golam Hassan, Asan Ali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: INSInet Publications 2014
• Subjects: HB Economic Theory
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/12142/1/523-528.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/12142/; http://www.ajbasweb.com/old/index.html

Recent literature indicates that SMEs in Sri Lanka fall short of exploiting the full potential of current technological means The study Examine the internal and external factors that contribute to the success of women-led small scale handicraft entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka.The field survey carried out among 158 female-led small and medium scale handicraft producers in western province in Sri Lanka.As the study hypothesized, both external factors based dynamic effective index (EFBDEI) and owner’s entrepreneurial self-efficiency index (OSEI) have significant positive impact on business performance during the last five years. However, relatively, the leaders’ entrepreneurial self-efficiency index has shown greater magnitude than the external factors based dynamic effective index on success or failure of female-led business. Thus, policy makers need to be drawn their attention not only the improvement of infrastructure facilities but also the importance of owners entrepreneurial self -efficiency improvement of small and medium scale female-led business owners in Sri Lanka