Enabling high-potential entrepreneurs: A retrospective evaluation of a business training programme in Uganda
This study evaluates a business training programme for high potential formal firms, finding improvements in business performance, business practices, and innovation adoption. However, it finds no evidence that management practices improved, highlighting the need to better understand how firms develop management capability. The findings also underline the importance of more rigorous research on formal firms, particularly to identify and address barriers faced by women owned businesses.
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- The growth of business training interventions has concentrated on small, informal business enterprises, and little is known about 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 usefulness of improvements in management practices and firm performance.
- More rigorous studies of this group of firms are essential, especially to highlight barriers for women-owned firms.