Publication Type
Journal Article
Book Title/Conference/Journal
Mobile Media & Communication
Year
9-2015
Abstract
Based on a survey of urban female-owned microentrepreneurs in Chennai, India, we contend that access to mobile phones is a necessary but not sufficient condition for achieving certain development goals. Through the analysis of a survey completed by 335 female microentrepreneurs who owned mobile phones, we explicate an innovative concept, entrepreneurial expectations, and explore its linkage with mobile phones and microenterprise growth. We found that among microentrepreneurs with high entrepreneurial expectations (14% of the sample), business use of mobile phones amplified the impact of entrepreneurial expectations and was associated with greater microenterprise growth.
Keywords
Amplification, ICT4D, livelihoods, microenterprise, mobile phones
Disciplines
Asian Studies | Business and Corporate Communications | Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
Subject(s)
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
ISSN/ISBN
2050-1579
Publisher
SAGE Publications
DOI
10.1177/2050157914564237
Version
acceptedVersion
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, P. Vigneswara; and Levy, Mark R..
The amplification effect of mobile phones on female-owned microenterprises. (2015). Mobile Media & Communication. 3, (3), 317.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/oi_research/5
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