A survey of Filipino women entrepreneurs with "growing" enterprises

• Main Authors: Bernardo, Francisco, III, Roberto, Ned, Fajardo, Maricar, Calimon, Carlo Edmund C., Tia, Tina
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Businesswomen > Philippines; Entrepreneurship > Philippines; Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13448
• Institution: De La Salle University

This is a baseline survey for women entrepreneurs with "growing" enterprises and who had attended a degree or non-degree training program on entrepreneurship before or during their entrepreneurial venture. This category of women entrepreneurs was chosen as the survey's target respondents over those with "start-up" enterprises, and those who are entrepreneurship students. To serve the principal purpose of the survey, it is from this category of trained women entrepreneurs with "growing", enterprises that the study would learn the most in satisfying its designated principal research purpose of developing a training program for would-be-women entrepreneurs.As a baseline survey. this study aimed at gathering basic data that would be helpful in designing a curriculum for the training of would-be-women entrepreneurs. The survey focused on those data about the entrepreneurial experiences, business learnings, and personal and professional profile of trained women entrepreneurs with "growing" enterprises. These are the data that related to the success of their enterprise's attainment of a "growing" category.The targeted women entrepreneurs were sampled from the women graduates of the past 11 batches of the Master in Entrepreneurship program at the Asian Institute of Management. This list served as the survey's sampling frame. Sampling of survey respondents followed the survey industry practice of statistical random procedure to assure the requirements of data external validity, i.e., data projectability and generalizability.The analysis of the gathered data suggested the development of a training program for would-be=women entrepreneurs with the following priority values and attributes.