The reasons behind reluctance of Sudanese Immigrants in establishing a business enterprise in Finland
Nyibong, Chol (2013)
Nyibong, Chol
Kymenlaakson ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013112818845
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013112818845
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The aim of the study was to understand various factors that lead to reluctance of Sudanese immigrants to engage in entrepreneurial activities. The theoretical framework establishes major factors that determine whether an individual is likely to become an entrepreneur. In more concrete terms, the focus is on psychological factors such as the propensity to take risk, sense of self-efficacy, need for achievement, need for autonomy-my and locus of control. In addition to these purely psychological factors, it was also proposed that the awareness of establishment procedure can also have effect on individual’s motivation to become an entrepreneur.
This theoretical framework was applied to a sample of Sudanese immigrants with 43 respondents. Questionnaire survey was used to assess the factors proposed in the theoretical framework. By conducting data analysis, it could be seen that autonomy, locus of control, achievement, and risk propensity measure are all highly correlated with motivation to establish business. It was somehow surprising to find that awareness of establishment procedures was not correlated with motivation to do business. Autonomy alone has highest independent significant effect on motivation to do business and locus of control seems to have second highest effect as well. From these results, it can be concluded that autonomy has the highest independent and significant effect on motivation to establish business. The lower the sense of autonomy the lower is the motivation to establish business and thus higher reluctance to establish business among Sudanese immigrants in Finland.
This theoretical framework was applied to a sample of Sudanese immigrants with 43 respondents. Questionnaire survey was used to assess the factors proposed in the theoretical framework. By conducting data analysis, it could be seen that autonomy, locus of control, achievement, and risk propensity measure are all highly correlated with motivation to establish business. It was somehow surprising to find that awareness of establishment procedures was not correlated with motivation to do business. Autonomy alone has highest independent significant effect on motivation to do business and locus of control seems to have second highest effect as well. From these results, it can be concluded that autonomy has the highest independent and significant effect on motivation to establish business. The lower the sense of autonomy the lower is the motivation to establish business and thus higher reluctance to establish business among Sudanese immigrants in Finland.