An Assessment of Entrepreneurship Behaviour of Fisherwomen in the Ratnagiri block of Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra State, India

A study on entrepreneurship behaviour of fisherwomen in the Ratnagiri block of Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state was conducted during 2011-12 with a sample size of 105 fisherwomen from 10 villages of Ratnagiri block in Ratnagiri district. The components of entrepreneurial behaviour were innovativeness, risk orientation, decision making, economic motivation, management orientation and self-confidence. Among all these components majority of respondents (55.24%) belong to medium entrepreneurial behaviour but in innovativeness and achievement motivation respondents exhibited low and high entrepreneurial behaviour category. The rank correlation technique was applied and found that the characteristics such as education, family size, house type and social participation were positively and significantly (P < 0.05) correlated with entrepreneurial behaviour. Principal component analysis was performed to find out the major components of entrepreneurial behaviour of the sampled fisherwomen. The first three principal components accounted for almost 58.97 per cent of the total variance. Canonical correlation analysis was used to examine the potential relationship between sociopersonal variables and entrepreneurship behaviour variables. Results of the analysis showed that there was no relationship between set of socio-personal variables and entrepreneurial behaviour variable.