When there's a will, there might be a way: The economic impact of mobile phones and entrepreneurial motivation on female-owned microenterprises

Authors

• Han Ei CHEW, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
• Vigneswara P. Ilavarasan
• Mark Levy

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Book Title/Conference/Journal

ICTD '13: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development, Cape Town, December 7-10

Year

12-2013

Abstract

Based on a survey of 598 urban microentrepreneurs in Chennai, India, we contend that access to mobile phones is a necessary but not sufficient condition for achieving certain development goals. We explicate an innovative concept, entrepreneurial expectations, and explore its linkage with mobile phones and microenterprise growth. We found that among high-expectation microentrepreneurs (14 percent of the sample) business use of mobile phones amplified the impact of entrepreneurial expectations and was associated with greater microenterprise growth.

Keywords

Business growth, Expectations, Microenterprise, Mobile phones, Women

Disciplines

Communication Technology and New Media | Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

Subject(s)

Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship

Publisher

ACM

DOI

10.1145/2516604.2516605

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/2516604.2516605

Version

publishedVersion

Language

eng

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Format

application/PDF

Citation

CHEW, Han Ei; Ilavarasan, Vigneswara P.; and Levy, Mark. When there's a will, there might be a way: The economic impact of mobile phones and entrepreneurial motivation on female-owned microenterprises. (2013). ICTD '13: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development, Cape Town, December 7-10. 196.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/oi_research/10