Correction

Corrigendum: Soft skills on entrepreneurial readiness behaviours: Evidence from university students

Stefan A. Strampe, Patient Rambe

Published: 29 Apr. 2024

Copyright: © 2024. The Author(s). Licensee: AOSIS.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In the published article, Strampe, S.A. & Rambe, P., 2024, ‘Soft skills on entrepreneurial readiness behaviours: Evidence from university students’, Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management 16(1), a778. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajesbm.v16i1.778, there was an error in the second author’s affiliation, which was incorrectly presented.

Instead of:

Department of Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management Sciences, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa

It should be:

Office of the Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa

There was also an error with missing citations under the heading ‘Entrepreneurial readiness behaviour’ on page 3 of 13.

Instead of:

Although the dimensions of entrepreneurial readiness behaviour have been widely debated (three sources here), those most relevant to this study are venture creation, venture growth and innovative financing (Kirkley 2016; Mamabolo, Kerrin & Kele 2017; Rwigema & Venter 2004), and these will be elaborated in subsequent sections.

It should be:

Although the dimensions of entrepreneurial readiness behaviour have been widely debated (Belchiour & Lyons 2021; Rakićević et al. 2022; Ruiz, Soriano & Coduras 2016), those most relevant to this study are venture creation, venture growth and innovative financing (Kirkley 2016; Mamabolo, Kerrin & Kele 2017; Rwigema & Venter 2004), and these will be elaborated in subsequent sections.

There was also an error with the authors’ contribution statement on page 11 of 13.

Instead of:

S.S. is the author who primarily writes the research study, investigates previous research, ensures that the questionnaires are distributed and does the project administration. P.R. is the supervisor of the project, sends relevant study material to the student and reviews and edits the work being done.

It should be:

S.A.S. conducted the original study, distributed the questionnaires and administered the project and wrote the article. P.R. was the main supervisor of the study, revised and edited multiple drafts of the manuscript and ensured the references’ conformity to the journal’s referencing style.

The authors apologise for these errors. The correction does not change the study’s findings of significance or overall interpretation of the study’s results or the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.