The Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Relationship between Opportunity Identification and Enterprise Growth of SMEs in Zambia

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The myth that entrepreneurs are born, no more holds good, rather it is well acknowledged now that entrepreneurs can be created and nurtured through addressing issues such as opportunity identification and entrepreneurial orientation which has to a high degree potential to increase enterprise growth of SMEs. This research evaluated the effect on entrepreneurial orientation on the relationship of opportunity identification and enterprise growth. Data evaluated was collected through administering of questionnaires to 86 SMEs registered with the National Council for Construction (NCC). The outcome of this research has reviewed that there is a significant effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) on Opportunity Identification (OI) and Enterprise Growth (EG) relationship of SMEs in Zambia. This has been supported by Wiklund (2005) who retaliated the fact that empirically, research has found that there is an influence of EO on enterprise growth.