START-UP AND ESTABLISHED ORGANISATIONS’ REQUIREMENTS FROM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS INCUBATORS

Rita KLONARİDİS; Natasha De KLERK

Makale detayları

START-UP AND ESTABLISHED ORGANISATIONS’ REQUIREMENTS FROM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS INCUBATORS

Yazarlar:

Rita KLONARİDİS | Natasha De KLERK

Yayıncı:

Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Derneği

Dergi:

International Journal of Business and Management Studies 2017 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.200-213

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2017

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000808939

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-8047

Özet:

 

In South Africa, small organisations contribute to the sustainability and growth of
  the economy through stimulating entrepreneurial activity, job creation, poverty
  alleviation and the general improvement of living standards. However, these small
  organisations face various challenges relating to inadequate capital, increasing
  competition, legislations and market expansions. University business incubators
  (UBIs), which have proven to be successful worldwide, are organisations that
  have been developed to support small organisations to overcome the challenges
  they face during their start-up and growth phases, when they are most vulnerable
  to business failure. The goal of UBIs is to offer incubation programmes, which
  include a variety of services ranging from physical facilities, general business
  services, management services, networking and professional services, financial
  consulting services and university services to support both start-up and established
  organisations. The purpose of this study was to determine the difference between
  start-up and established organisations’ service offering requirements from UBIs in
  order to tailor the service offerings of UBIs. A descriptive research design was
  followed, whereby a non-probability judgment sample of 108 small service
  organisations (SSOs) situated in the Vaal Triangle region of South Africa was
  taken. A structured self-administered questionnaire, containing the various UBI
  service offerings, was distributed to the owners or managers of the SSOs. The
  statistical analysis of the collected data included descriptive statistics and a two
  independent-samples t-test. The findings of this study suggest that while there is
  no statistically significant difference between start-up and established
  organisations’ physical facilities, general business service, networking and
  professional service, financial consulting service and university service requirements from UBIs, statistically significant differences were found
  concerning management service requirements. As such, UBIs should tailor their
  service offerings and develop unique marketing strategies to target start-up and
  established organisations.

Makale detayları

START-UP AND ESTABLISHED ORGANISATIONS’ REQUIREMENTS FROM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS INCUBATORS

Yazarlar: Rita KLONARİDİS | Natasha De KLERK

Yayıncı: Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Derneği

Dergi: International Journal of Business and Management Studies 2017 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.200-213

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 5/2017

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000808939

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 1309-8047

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Rita KLONARİDİS | Natasha De KLERK

Yayıncı:

Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Derneği

Dergi:

International Journal of Business and Management Studies 2017 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.200-213

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2017

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000808939

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

1309-8047