Abstract
Leadership effectiveness is an invariably crucial ingredient in the recipe for entrepreneurial success. Evidently, this fact warrants an assessment of the factors which presumably influence the degree of leadership effectiveness of women entrepreneurs. Among others, two such elements are the entrepreneurial stimulus and the industry affiliation of women entrepreneurs. This study tries to make a case for the variance in leadership effectiveness and group management traits, with respect to differing entrepreneurial stimuli and industry affiliations of women entrepreneurs, respectively. It develops on a questionnaire-based quantitative self-assessment of leadership effectiveness Style of 120 women entrepreneurs from Central India. The findings suggest that women entrepreneurs influenced by pull factors perceive their leadership to be more effective than those affected by push factors. Furthermore, those belonging to service-dominant sectors seem to recognise a greater quantum of group management traits than their counterparts from the manufacturing-dominant sectors. Eventually, this study furthers the results to an inquiry into the plausible reasons behind them, thereby, generating a guidepost for subsequent efforts into the arena of enhancing leadership effectiveness among women entrepreneurs.
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