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Internal drivers of ecopreneurship among food and beverage Industries in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Buzohera, Mohamed
dc.contributor.author Matotola, Salum
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-23T09:38:17Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-23T09:38:17Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation Buzohera, M. & Matotola, S. Internal drivers of ecopreneurship among food and beverage Industries in Tanzania. Journal of Co-operative and Business Studies, 6 (2), 59-72. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2714-2043
dc.identifier.issn 0856-9037
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/597
dc.description.abstract The concept of ecopreneurship is evolving due to necessity to address the sustainability challenges particularly on the environment grounded on industrial pollutions. Thus, several researches have been committed to address sustainability challenges through investigating mechanism for enhancing ecopreneurship implementation in different context of nations. In this path, this study focused to examine the influence of internal drivers on the implementation of ecopreneurship headed for addressing sustainability challenges. This is empirical study incorporated (102) small scale ecopreneurs operating in the Tanzania food and beverage industries. The study was directed to test five hypotheses of internal drivers namely; finance knowledge, internal stakeholders, motivation and researches on influencing ecopreneurship implementation. The results of the study found that, four among the five tested drivers had significant and positive influence on ecopreneurship implementation; the significant drivers consist of finance, knowledge, internal stakeholders and researches. Thus, ecopreneurship implementation can be enhanced through financing ecopreneurship activities, increasing employee knowledge on environment, upholding stakeholders concern on sustainable industrial practices and researching information regarding environmental friendly products, along with eco-technology. Conversely, motivation had insignificant influence on ecopreneurship implementation. Therefore, the study recommends on initiatives to enhance ecopreneurship implementation through significant drivers and so addresses the sustainability challenges sourced from unsustainable industrial practices. en_US
dc.publisher Moshi cooperative University en_US
dc.subject Internal Drivers en_US
dc.subject Ecopreneurship Implementation en_US
dc.subject Sustainability en_US
dc.subject Food en_US
dc.subject Beverage Industries en_US
dc.title Internal drivers of ecopreneurship among food and beverage Industries in Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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