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;P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan;Mark R. Levy
Affiliations:
United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland;Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India;Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Venue:
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development: Full Papers - Volume 1
Year:
2013

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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.