Factors influencing women entrepreneurs businesssuccess in Somalia

Women entrepreneurs has been recognized during the last decade as an important untapped source of economic growth; they created new jobs for themselves and others and by being different also provide society with different solutions to management, organization and business problems as well as to the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. However, they still represent a minority of all entrepreneurs in the market world. Thus, there exists a market failure discriminating against women's possibility to become entrepreneurs and their possibility to become successful entrepreneurs. This study aimed at establishing whether, financial capital, fund support, Socio-economic and culture, market and network, government support influence women entrepreneurs business success were adopted as the theoretical framework for the study. A questionnaire was used for data collection, and it was distributed to the women entrepreneurs in the north east regions of Somalia as the sample of this study. Correlation, t-test and multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the research hypothesis. T-test analysis showed that the significant relation between demographic factors such as age, marital status, education, business age, source of capital, business type, and experience before start business and Factors influencing women entrepreneurs such as government support, market and network, socio-economic and culture and financial capital. Also multiple Regression and correlation analysis showed that collectively all factors have an insignificant values on women business success. However; research recommended for further study in the future, in order to investigate other important factors could influence the women entrepreneurs' business success and also a deeper investigation on the factors that not significant. It is also hoped that this study could contribute to the entrepreneurial literatures as well as practice.