Enabling high-potential entrepreneurs: A retrospective evaluation of business training programme in Uganda
Business training interventions have mainly focused on small informal enterprises, with limited knowledge about high-potential formal firms. This study finds significant improvements in performance and innovation after training, but no changes in management practices, highlighting the need for more research, especially on barriers faced by women-owned firms.
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- The growth of business training interventions has concentrated on small, informal business enterprises, and little is known about the high-potential formal firms.
- This study conducts a retrospective evaluation of a business training intervention targeted at such firms and finds evidence of significant improvements in business performance (revenue, costs, and profits), business practices, and innovations.
- Management practices remain unaffected despite existing evidence on the benefits of improvements in management practices and firm performance.
- More rigorous studies of this group of firms are essential, especially to highlight the barriers faced by women-owned firms.