Title: Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness -Is it a Function of Gender?

Dr. Purna Prabhakar Nandamuri

Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing & Strategy, IBS, IFHE University, Hyderabad, INDIA.

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ABSTRACT: Fostering positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship is high on the policy agenda of several economies. It is the obligation of the prevailing education system to charge the graduating youth with entrepreneurial orientation. It is appropriate to spot out the influence of the fundamental factors such as age, gender, education, and family income and background   on entrepreneurial orientation. Previous research profoundly concludes that gender plays a major role in entrepreneurial activity and women have less motivation for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial behaviour is a function of entrepreneurial resourcefulness. However, the nature of dependence of this trait on the other independent characteristics has not been made explicit or empirically testable to date. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of the independent variable – gender, on the dependent trait – entrepreneurial resourcefulness, of management students. A sample of 200 final year post-graduate management students are selected randomly from leading management institutes in Warangal region which pass-out around 2000 management graduates every year who face a bleak opportunity for entrepreneurship and look for employment. The responses were tested with ANOVA and t-test with the help of SPSS-19. The findings establish that gender had a profound impact on entrepreneurial resourcefulness. The male group establishes a comparatively stronger preference for resourcefulness than their counterparts. As the generic limitations of time and money confine the generalizability of the findings, further research of a larger sample with wider geo-cultural background may help to establish the findings.

KEYWORDS: Entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial resourcefulness, Demographic factors, Gender, Management students. Post-Hoc Analysis.

 This paper can be cited as follows: Nandamuri, P.P. (2013). Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness – Is it a Function of Gender?, Business Frontiers, 3(1), 1-13.

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