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African Entrepreneurship

Challenges and Opportunities for Doing Business

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Editors:
  1. Leo-Paul Dana

    1. GSCM Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France

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  2. Vanessa Ratten

    1. Department of Management and Marketing, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

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  3. Ben Q. Honyenuga

    1. Department of Management Sciences, Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana

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  • Explores the cultural and historical influences to highlight how business in Africa represents a unique challenge
  • Discusses the regulatory framework that helps and hinders business in Africa
  • Examines the different types of entrepreneurship emerging in Africa including the changing conditions for female and ethnic entrepreneurs

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa (PSEA)

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This book outlines the unique challenges and opportunities of doing business in Africa, analysing how varying degrees of development across its countries affects entrepreneurship. Taking into account historical and cultural contexts, the authors approach the topic by evaluating the different possibilities of business opportunity in Africa. Insightful contributions explore an extensive range of African countries, discussing both formal and informal entrepreneurship, as well as the different factors that influence the growing economy of Africa. African Entrepreneurship will be of interest to anyone researching the potential of doing business in Africa, as well as entrepreneurs and policy-makers looking to expand their knowledge on how businesses are managed in this region.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction to African Entrepreneurship

    • Leo-Paul Dana, Vanessa Ratten, Ben Q. Honyenuga
    Pages 1-7

  3. Bringing Africa into Entrepreneurship Research

    • Vanessa Ratten, Paul Jones
    Pages 9-27

  4. Tanzania as an Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Prospects and Challenges

    • Bella L. Galperin, Lemayon L. Melyoki
    Pages 29-58

  5. The Kenyan Environment’s Influence on the Emergence and Development of Corporate Entrepreneurship Among SMEs

    • Michael J. Mustafa, Mathew Hughes
    Pages 59-88

  6. Entrepreneurship Education in Developing Countries: A Study of the Key Challenges in Sierra Leone

    • Alfred Mbeteh, Massimiliano M. Pellegrini
    Pages 89-116

  7. African Entrepreneurship: Constraints and Improvements

    • Gerd Junne
    Pages 117-130

  8. Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Challenges for Retired Senior Military Officers in Nigeria

    • Nnamdi O. Madichie, Kaseem Ayasi
    Pages 131-151

  9. Income Diversification and Banks’ Profitability from an African Market Perspective: A Relief for SMEs?

    • Isaac Boadi
    Pages 153-188

  10. Entrepreneurship and SMEs’ Productivity Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Paul Agu Igwe, Adah Emmanuel Onjewu, Simon Uguru Nwibo
    Pages 189-221

  11. Entrepreneur-SME Manager Traits and Sources of Financing

    • Abiodun Anthony Eniola
    Pages 223-259

  12. Brokering: Africa’s Unique Brand of Entrepreneurship

    • Daniel M. Quaye, Atsu Nkukpornu, George Acheampong
    Pages 261-274

  13. South Africa’s White Entrepreneurs: An Evolution from Opportunity to Necessity

    • Warren Lloyd
    Pages 275-287

  14. Entrepreneurship Policy for the Health Sector in Rwanda: A Quest for Contextual Social Inclusion

    • Marcela Ramírez Pasillas, Hans Lundberg, Sabine Umuhire
    Pages 289-324

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 325-344
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Editors and Affiliations

  • GSCM Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France

    Leo-Paul Dana

  • Department of Management and Marketing, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Vanessa Ratten

  • Department of Management Sciences, Ho Technical University, Ho, Ghana

    Ben Q. Honyenuga

About the editors

Leo-Paul Dana is Professor at Montpellier Business School and a member of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation chair, which is part of LabEx Entrepreneurship, in France.

Vanessa Ratten is Associate Professor at La Trobe University in Australia.

Ben Q. Honyenuga is a Senior Lecturer at Ho Technical University in Ghana.

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