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Empowering rural women : micro-enterprise through achievement motivation / Kiron Wadhera, George Koreth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wadhera, Kiron, author.
- Koreth, George, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Businesswomen--Developing countries.
- Businesswomen.
- Rural women--Developing countries--Economic conditions.
- Rural women.
- Entrepreneurship--Developing countries.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Achievement motivation in women--Developing countries.
- Achievement motivation in women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the past 60 years, there has been sufficient research on male, urban entrepreneurs, their 'achievement motivation' and their entrepreneurial success. However, no significant study of this kind has been undertaken for women entrepreneurs (whether urban or rural). This book intends to fill this lacuna through original research on poor, rural, women micro-entrepreneurs, whose achievement motivation has been rigorously measured. This pioneering study establishes a clear relationship between presence/absence of achievement motivation and the success/failure of these women in sustaining their ent
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 - Rural Women Entrepreneurs and Achievement Motivation; 2 - The Setting: Acord's Micro-Enterprise Project for Rural Women; 3 - Poor Rural Women as Entrepreneurs; 4 - Measuring Achievement Motivation in Rural Women Micro-entrepreneurs; 5 - Personal Stories of Achievers and Non-Achievers; 6 - Patterns of Male Response; 7 - Summary, Conclusion and the way Forward; Appendix: Organisations Supporting Micro-enterprise; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-185) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 81-321-1954-1
- 1-283-42228-X
- 9786613422286
- 81-321-0942-2
- OCLC:
- 775597875
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