Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Women Entrepreneurs of Ima Market Manipur

摘要

The present study was conducted at Ima market situated at Imphal-west district of Manipur during the year 2015-16 with the objective to study the profile of the women entrepreneurs of Ima market, to assess the entrepreneurial behaviour of women entrepreneurs, to study the relationship between the dependent and independent variables and to study the constraints and problems faced by the women entrepreneurs. The 140 respondents from seven enterprises selected as a respondents. The study revealed that 67.14 per cent respondents belonged to the middle age group (43 to 57 years). The 28.57 per cent of the respondent received middle school level of education, and 73.57 per cent of the respondent belonged to family of medium size (5 to 7 members). The 80.00 per cent of women entrepreneurs were married, 65.00 per cent of the respondents were under the medium annual income category (Rs. 1,00,965—2,05,374) while the 55.71 per cent of women respondent had no outside sources of finance as they use their own money for running their enterprise. It was revealed that 75 per cent women entrepreneurs had medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour.