Read the case study below and answer the questions that follow.
Micro2Medium Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation that provides capacity building support to Micro, Small and Mediumsized Enterprises (MSMEs) across the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). Micro2Medium’s mission is to
build the capacity of MSMEs in order to contribute to economic growth and prosperity, increase resilience and stimulate job
creation. Due to increased demand for its services, Micro2Medium Inc. is contemplating a strategic shift with the aim of
prioritising the provision of evidence-driven support for MSMEs.
The operations director, Ms Thobeka Melane, is spearheading Micro2Medium’s operational plan which is premised on
sharpening entrepreneurial behaviours that predict business performance across the SADC region. She believes that
building the capacity of MSMEs and nudging firms within the MSME space towards better business practices is important
for improved business performance and enhanced contribution to economic growth across SADC. In this regard, she has
hypothesised that entrepreneurial orientations of MSMEs correlate with business performance.
Mr Phumlani Vilakazi, a business researcher at Micro2Medium Inc., has been tasked with conducting an analysis of
entrepreneurial orientations and business performance of MSMEs across five (5) SADC countries, namely South Africa,
Namibia, DR Congo, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. He has decided to focus the investigation on key provinces and regions with
high concentrations of MSMEs within each of 5 countries and has randomly selected MSMEs from the selected provinces
and regions for the study (see Table 3.1). Due to ongoing working relationships with many of the MSMEs, Mr Vilakazi
estimates a 50% response rate for the survey instrument.

To determine whether there's a difference between the entrepreneurial orientation across the countries.
To investigate whether there's a difference in the business performance.

What is a research?

A research simply means a systematic and creative work undertaken that involves the collection, and analysis of information to increase the understanding of a topic.

From the complete information, the objective is to determine whether there's a difference between the entrepreneurial orientation across the countries and to investigate whether there's a difference in the business performance.

It's also to draw conclusions from the empirical study and give recommendations on how to enhance the performance of the small scale enterprise.

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