Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance

Natural Disasters are real phenomenon that occurs in one or another part of the world throughout the year. Disasters affected counties suffer losses such as loss of economy and infrastructures; whilst affected people lose their lives, health, wealth, shelter, education; people become displaced and l...

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Main Authors: Kazi, Abdul Ghafoor, Md Yusoff, Rosman, Ismail, Fadillah, Munastiwi, Erni, Arisar, Muzammil Muhammad Khan
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author Kazi, Abdul Ghafoor
Md Yusoff, Rosman
Ismail, Fadillah
Munastiwi, Erni
Arisar, Muzammil Muhammad Khan
author_facet Kazi, Abdul Ghafoor
Md Yusoff, Rosman
Ismail, Fadillah
Munastiwi, Erni
Arisar, Muzammil Muhammad Khan
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description Natural Disasters are real phenomenon that occurs in one or another part of the world throughout the year. Disasters affected counties suffer losses such as loss of economy and infrastructures; whilst affected people lose their lives, health, wealth, shelter, education; people become displaced and lose means to earn livelihood. The affected societies become vulnerable to suffer tension and depression, which may lead society to inhuman actives. In order to restore livelihood in such situation, most of the studies are done in developed countries, less are done in developing countries in this perspective. This study determines the relationship in between entrepreneurship and livelihood through firm performance. A research framework was designed to observe such relationship. The population parameters were set and a sample of 446 entrepreneurs was selected from disaster affected districts of Sindh Province at Pakistan using multistage sampling. Self-Administrated Questionnaires was used to collect entrepreneurs’ responses. Prior to final data analysis, data was screened out to eradicate/transform the outliers and missing values; furthermore, the testes were performed to check normality, linearity, Homoscedasticity, and Multicollinearity in data. Final data was analyzed using Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis in stepwise manner as suggested Baron and Kenny. Data analysis revealed that entrepreneurship has positive relationship with livelihood restoration and firm performance partially mediated this relationship. Therefore, it concludes that disaster affected society may recover and restores their livelihood promoting entrepreneurship and improving firm performance.
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spelling uthm-42572021-12-01T08:15:10Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4257/ Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance Kazi, Abdul Ghafoor Md Yusoff, Rosman Ismail, Fadillah Munastiwi, Erni Arisar, Muzammil Muhammad Khan HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property Natural Disasters are real phenomenon that occurs in one or another part of the world throughout the year. Disasters affected counties suffer losses such as loss of economy and infrastructures; whilst affected people lose their lives, health, wealth, shelter, education; people become displaced and lose means to earn livelihood. The affected societies become vulnerable to suffer tension and depression, which may lead society to inhuman actives. In order to restore livelihood in such situation, most of the studies are done in developed countries, less are done in developing countries in this perspective. This study determines the relationship in between entrepreneurship and livelihood through firm performance. A research framework was designed to observe such relationship. The population parameters were set and a sample of 446 entrepreneurs was selected from disaster affected districts of Sindh Province at Pakistan using multistage sampling. Self-Administrated Questionnaires was used to collect entrepreneurs’ responses. Prior to final data analysis, data was screened out to eradicate/transform the outliers and missing values; furthermore, the testes were performed to check normality, linearity, Homoscedasticity, and Multicollinearity in data. Final data was analyzed using Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis in stepwise manner as suggested Baron and Kenny. Data analysis revealed that entrepreneurship has positive relationship with livelihood restoration and firm performance partially mediated this relationship. Therefore, it concludes that disaster affected society may recover and restores their livelihood promoting entrepreneurship and improving firm performance. American Scientific Publishers 2017 Article PeerReviewed Kazi, Abdul Ghafoor and Md Yusoff, Rosman and Ismail, Fadillah and Munastiwi, Erni and Arisar, Muzammil Muhammad Khan (2017) Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance. Advanced Science Letters, 23 (9). pp. 8138-8143. ISSN 1936-6612 https://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2017.9849
spellingShingle HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property
Kazi, Abdul Ghafoor
Md Yusoff, Rosman
Ismail, Fadillah
Munastiwi, Erni
Arisar, Muzammil Muhammad Khan
Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance
title Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance
title_full Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance
title_fullStr Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance
title_short Entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at Sindh Pakistan: mediating role of firm performance
title_sort entrepreneurship and livelihood restoration at sindh pakistan: mediating role of firm performance
topic HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4257/
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