Contemporary Issues and Prospects in Business Development in Africa
Contemporary Issues and Prospects in Business Development in Africa

Author: Simon P. Sigué

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2020-05-21

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1000681653

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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Journal of African Business, this book delves into contemporary issues in business and business knowledge development in Africa. This collection of eight chapters—by fourteen distinguished scholars based in Africa, Europe, and North America—covers anticorruption strategies; domestic credit and export diversification; the challenges of doing business in African countries; the emergence of African endogenous businesses; board gender diversity; governance and performance of strategic alliances; customer-centric marketing in Africa; and the intellectual development of the Journal of African Business as the premier research outlet for African business since its inception in 2000. Each chapter offers a cogently differentiated perspective about business growth or business knowledge development in Africa. Made up of contributions which are vividly and ingeniously written to be accessible to decision-makers and other non-experts, this book will be of interest to all those researching the development of business in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of African Business.

Small Business and Entrepreneurial Development in Africa
Small Business and Entrepreneurial Development in Africa

Author: Robert E. Hinson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-12-02

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 3031376757

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This book explores the issues around small business and entrepreneurial activities in Africa within the context of frequent collapse of businesses, seizures by governments, lack of access to capital and raw materials as well as the reliance on the informal sector. All these issues, the Editors argue, have been exacerbated by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, entrepreneurship must be at the heart of efforts to transform Africa’s economic prospects to ensure sustained economic growth and decent work for all. In looking at the development of entrepreneurship for Africa’s growth, contributors to this edited collection take an evolutionary approach by focusing on entrepreneurial intentions (where entrepreneurial ideas are formed), customer management (which is central to all entrepreneurial business success) and by also focusing on local and entrepreneurial business development. The book then ends with a discussion around technological innovations in small business development in Africa. Covering topics such as social entrepreneurship, international joint ventures and the impact of digital platforms, this conceptual path provides rich contemporary insights for students, researchers, and policy makers and contributes to the achievement of SDG 8 targets.

Contemporary Issues in Business
Contemporary Issues in Business

Author: Ndalahwa Musa Masanja

Publisher: NMM PRINTERS

Published: 2019-11-06

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13:

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The main premise underlying this book entitled Contemporary Issues in Business provides a comprehensive account of different aspects encountered for business practices in Tanzania and elsewhere around the world. In the dawn of the twenty first century, there are several challenges which confront businesses. These challenges include the management of human resources, operations and production, finances and marketing issues surrounding the success of of business entity and the organization as whole. At the same time, businesses are facing multiple challenges about ethical and legal issues confronting business activities. Moreover, the drastic changes in technological especially artificial intelligence have reconfigured the whole fabric of business endeavors in the world today especially in Tanzania. In light of these challenges confronting business, it is therefore important to research with the sole objectives to meet the rising demand of the business activities. These researchers should solely focus on contemporary issues which threaten the survival and prosperity of business activities in this era. These studies provide a new insight and perspective in confronting today business challenges and provide a blueprint to forge a clear path forward. In this case, this book provides the current and up-to-date issue surrounding business activities and operations. But at the same time, provide clear recommendations and suggestions in efforts to solve the underlying problems in business activities.

African Entrepreneurship
African Entrepreneurship

Author: Leo-Paul Dana

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-23

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 3319737007

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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.

Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Research
Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Research

Author: Paula Kyrö

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-01-30

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1849808244

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Allying and expanding the diverse fields of entrepreneurship and sustainable development research is a modern day imperative. This Handbook paints an illuminating picture of the historic and current understanding of the bond between entrepreneurship an

Geographies of Entrepreneurship
Geographies of Entrepreneurship

Author: Elizabeth A. Mack

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1317415787

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This book addresses a gap in the present literature on the role that geography plays in the distribution of entrepreneurial activity. Emerging work on entrepreneurial ecosystems suggests it is important entrepreneurship studies move beyond the mere identification of factors that impact entrepreneurial activity to consider the unique geographic contexts in which entrepreneurs operate. These contexts include a variety of interactive elements including regional characteristics, institutions, actors, and connectors. As such, this collection analyses entrepreneurial activity in regions around the globe. The contributions explore a series of diverse regions in terms of their geographic, historical, industrial, and institutional contexts. The book also explores a range of topics, such as patterns of regional/subnational variations in entrepreneurial activity, geographically mediated determinants of entrepreneurship, inter-temporal dynamics, evolution of regional systems of entrepreneurship, and the impact of entrepreneurship on regional development and regional entrepreneurship policy. This book enhances our policy and practical knowledge about the unique regional context in which entrepreneurs operate and demonstrates the important role that geography plays in the spatial distribution of entrepreneurial activity.

Business and Government Relations in Africa
Business and Government Relations in Africa

Author: Robert A. Dibie

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1351792660

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This book looks at the regulatory regimes that have an impact on business and provides a number of case studies of the relationships between government and economic development around the African continent, highlighting different processes and practices. It will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to business-government relations and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students in the fields of African politics, comparative politics, public policy, business and politics, sustainable development and sustainability, economic development, and managerial economics.

Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa
Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa

Author: Raj Bardouille

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1443806285

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Gender plays a hugely significant and too often under-considered role in predicting how accessible resources such as education, wage-based employment, physical and mental health care, adequate nutrition and housing will be to an individual or community. According to a 2001 World Bank report titled Engendering Development—Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, enormous disparities exist between men and women in terms of basic rights and the power to determine the future, both in Africa and around the globe. A better understanding of the links between gender, public policy and development outcomes would allow for more effective policy formulation and implementation at many levels. This book, through its discussion of the challenges, achievements and lessons learned in efforts to attain gender equality, sheds light on these important issues. The book contains chapters from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including sociologists, economists, political scientists, scholars of law, anthropologists, historians and others. The work includes analysis of strategic gender initiatives, case studies, research, and policies as well as conceptual and theoretical pieces. With its format of ideas, resources and recorded experiences as well as theoretical models and best practices, the book is an important contribution to academic and political discourse on the intricate links between gender, power, and social change in Africa and around the world.

Entrepreneurship Centres
Entrepreneurship Centres

Author: Gideon Maas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 3319478923

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Focusing on the role entrepreneurship centres can play within the UK and other countries; this edited volume explores the effective construction of viable and sustainable entrepreneurship centres. It questions how these Higher Education Centres contribute to enterprise and entrepreneurship curriculum enhancement, research, and support to entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Centres responds to the renewed focus on Higher Education Institutions to play a meaningful role in socio-economic development and the need for such centres to act as an equal component to the traditional roles of teaching and research within universities. With case studies from the UK, Africa, Europe, and Canada, this collection contributes to the debate on whether entrepreneurship centres can and should play an important role in entrepreneurship activities within HEIs.