A. Beloucif
A systems view of youth business start-ups in the Arab countries: influences and barriers.
Beloucif, A.; Bouguerra, A.
Authors
A. Bouguerra
Abstract
Purpose: After the Arab spring, much attention has been devoted recently to diffuse the boiling situation across the Arab world. A number of policies have been introduced by governments. Amongst of them, it is to encourage youth job creation and entrepreneurship activities. Thus, a number of youth found themselves pushed toward starting up their own business in a very rigid and complex environment. This has not happened without problems. Therefore, this paper attempts to presents a conceptual model of youth business start-ups. It conceptualises youth attitudes towards entrepreneurial activities, the influential factors, barriers and business start-up process. Design/Methodology: Both a systematic review of key literature and a systems approach have been used in this study. From a systems approach, this study examines the entrepreneurship decision process through the interrelationships amongst its environment, its relationship structure and process and, its outcomes Findings: This study shows that youth are influenced by different factors. This study reiterates that a relationship exists between youth motives and drivers towards entrepreneurship. Other factors are the awakening of youth and determination to challenge governments for job creation and employment. Contribution: The study has the following contributions: (1) provides an understanding of youth attitudes and difficulties towards entrepreneurship activities, (2) Developing an exploratory and integrated model of new business start-ups and, (3) A proposed model acting as A Systemic Framework Guide of Decision Process for both academic/researchers and policy-makers in the Arab and developing countries.
Citation
BELOUCIF, A. and BOUGUERRA, A. 2013. A systems view of youth business start-ups in the Arab countries: influences and barriers. Presented at the 2nd International conference on emerging research paradigms in business and social studies (ERPBSS 2013), 26-28 November 2013, Dubai, UAE.
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (unpublished) |
---|---|
Conference Name | 2nd International conference on emerging research paradigms in business and social studies (ERPBSS 2013) |
Conference Location | Dubai, UAE |
Start Date | Nov 26, 2013 |
End Date | Nov 28, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Oct 27, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 27, 2015 |
Keywords | Business start-up; Arab youth; Entrepreneurship process |
Public URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1323 |
Files
BELOUCIF 2013 A systems view of youth business
(628 Kb)
PDF
Publisher Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/