- Title
- Ranked factors influencing the sustainability and growth of SMMEs in the city of Port Elizabeth
- Creator
- Bussy, Matthew
- Subject
- Business enterprises -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Small business -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Date Issued
- 2021-04
- Date
- 2021-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/51050
- Identifier
- vital:43204
- Description
- SMMEs are the backbone of both established and developing economies with their ability to contribute to a country’s GDP, create employment, stimulate innovation and create new revenue streams. In South Africa the majority of SMMEs do not reach the critical threshold period for sustainability, defined by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) as three years. This study explores twenty-five barriers and influences (nine external and sixteen internal) as experienced by small businesses operating in the city of Port Elizabeth, and their effect on the sustainability and success of the small business. The internal barriers and influences are ranked according to their relative importance to business sustainability and success as viewed by small businesses in the city of Port Elizabeth. The research is exploratory in nature and was conducted using a structured questionnaire. The findings show that the nineteen barriers and influencers that are controllable within the business are all important to the success and sustainability of small businesses. Of these internal factors, the most important one relatively speaking is found to be the general management abilities of management, and the least important, relatively speaking, is the education levels of the non-management employees.
- Description
- Thesis (MBA) -- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences, Business Administration, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- Format
- 1 online resource (138 pages)
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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