African Entrepreneurship

Challenges and Opportunities for Doing Business

Leo-Paul Dana, Vanessa Ratten, Ben Q. Honyenuga, Leo-Paul Dana, Vanessa Ratten, Ben Q. Honyenuga

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9783319736990
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319737003
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction to African Entrepreneurship
• 2. Bringing Africa into Entrepreneurship Research
• 3. Tanzania as an Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Prospects and Challenges
• 4. The Kenyan Environment’s Influence on the Emergence and Development of Corporate Entrepreneurship Among SMEs
• 5. Entrepreneurship Education in Developing Countries: A Study of the Key Challenges in Sierra Leone
• 6. African Entrepreneurship: Constraints and Improvements
• 7. Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Challenges for Retired Senior Military Officers in Nigeria
• 8. Income Diversification and Banks’ Profitability from an African Market Perspective: A Relief for SMEs?
• 9. Entrepreneurship and SMEs’ Productivity Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 10. Entrepreneur-SME Manager Traits and Sources of Financing
• 11. Brokering: Africa’s Unique Brand of Entrepreneurship
• 12. South Africa’s White Entrepreneurs: An Evolution from Opportunity to Necessity
• 13. Entrepreneurship Policy for the Health Sector in Rwanda: A Quest for Contextual Social Inclusion
• Back Matter