JOURNAL,

SR. AUTHOR,
#
YEAR

TITLE

VARIABLE

HYPOTHESIS/ FRAMEWORK

TOOLS
RESULTS/
FINDINGS

Women
01

Smile

Dzisi, entreprene

Swinburne

urial

University

of activities

Technology
AGSE 2008

Demographic

H1: Personality traits of the Ghanaian

Descriptive

Features and

women entrepreneurs are related to their

analysis, factor

Personality Traits

success.

analysis,

in

of Women

developing

Entrepreneurs in

H2: The entrepreneurial activities of

Economies

Ghana

Ghanaian women entrepreneurs are related to variance. The

: Ghana as

Types of

their success.

A case

Businesses

results

study

Created by the

corroborated the

Women

quantitative

Entrepreneurs in

results.

H1 accepted
H2 Accepted

regression and
analysis of
Qualitative

Ghana
Intrinsic and
02

Journal of

Entreprene

extrinsic factors,

What determines women participation in

Business Diversity urship

Family

entrepreneurship

vol. 12(1) 2012

Developm

commitment, lack

important research issue.

Foluke Ademokun

ent,

of capital, cultural Consequently, this study investigated the

Olumide Ajayi

Business

values, regulatory

factor(s) that motivates women to be

Ownership

environment,

entrepreneurial

and

Motivation,

characteristics of women business owners in

Women

Entrepreneur

Nigeria. The study sampled 200 trained

Empower

Training Impact,

women entrepreneurs who have participated

ment in

Business

in entrepreneurship training at the Central

Nigeria

Challenges

Bank of Nigeria
(CBN)

activities

and

also

Entrepreneurship

Centre (EDC), Lagos.

remains

an

Descriptive
statistics.

Environment
al factor has
negative

identified

the

correlation.
need for
independenc
e,
unemployme
nt
( motivation)
Negative

Development

influence of
business