Role of Social Capital among Women Entrepreneurs
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2017
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UMT.Lahore
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While employing a gender lens, the current quantitative study aims to find the association of social capital and entrepreneurship among women in Pakistan. The study was conducted using a sample of 200 women who own beauty salon since one year from their homes and earn profit between PKR 8000 to PKR 12000 using non-random purposive sampling. Social Networking Index (SNI) and Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientation (EAO) were the data collection tools. The findings of the study revealed that social capital and entrepreneurship had significant positive correlation. Social capital also predicts the positive association between innovation, achievement and personal control. ANOVA was also conducted to find the difference in the means of variables.