Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Masters of Technology: Fashion at the Durban University of Technology, 2013. / Due to the high levels of unemployment in Durban South Africa, the New Venture
Creation (NVC) groups I coached/mentored were seeking to become self-employed,
to find social and economic independence. I have observed that many of the people
in my NVC groups seemed to lack, self-confidence and self-esteem in the start-up
process of their business. These lacunae pose a problem, as they are all necessary
if one wants to create a viable, sustainable and profitable business. The reason that I
coach these emerging entrepreneurs is to assist in building their self-confidence and
self-esteem so that they have the courage to “go for it”.
The problem I have sought to address in this research is: How do I influence
emerging entrepreneurs to become sufficiently self-confident to be able to design,
establish and sustain their own employment and employment for others? I work on
the assumption that most people have the capacity to be self-employed.
I have used autoethnography with action research to describe the interventions that I
initiated, report on their implementation, as well as the evolution of new perceptions
and understandings that developed as a result. By using my own and the
participants visual data with still images and video with visual narrative I demonstrate
the evidence of my living theory and self-study to influence creative economic
independence in others and reflect critically on what has been done and achieved,
and critically assess the way forward.
I verbally explained the ethical issue of obtaining consent to use names and
photographs in my study to the participants. My explanation was followed by
obtaining written consent from the five key participants and others in the pictorial
data.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:dut/oai:localhost:10321/1330 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Kaplan, Bonnie |
| Contributors | Kadwa, Farida, Conolly, Joan Lucy |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 264 p |
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