Entrepreneurship in Africa / edited by Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz, Chibuike Uche.
Historically, entrepreneurs have always played a central role in the development of nation states. Aside from rentier states, which depend extensively on the availability of mineral resource rents, most economically prosperous nations in the world have strong, innovative and competitive business ent...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and Chibuike Uche
- Part 1. Examination of related theories and innovations
- Methodological challenges of entrepreneurship research in the least developed East African countries / Emiel L. Eijdenberg
- Africapitalism: a management idea for business in Africa? / Kenneth Amaeshi and Uwafiokun Idemudia
- Inclusive business in Africa: priorities, strategies and challenges / Addisu A. Lashitew and Rob van Tulder
- Innovation as a key to success? Case studies of innovative start-ups in Kenya and Nigeria / Miguel Heilbron, Andre Leliveld and Peter Knorringa
- Innovation in manufacturing SMEs in Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania: a grounded view on the research and policy issues / Jaap Voeten
- Part 2. Entrepreneurship development, country studies
- An institutional analysis of entrepreneurship development in Nigeria / Abel Ezeoha and Afam Ituma
- Entrepreneurship development in Africa: insights from Nigeria's and Zimbabwe's telecoms / Nnamdi O. Madichie, Knowledge Mpofu and Jerry Kolo
- The development of entrepreneurship in Sudan / Yagoub Ali Gangi and Hesham E. Mohammed
- Challenges to entrepreneurship development in Tanzania / Nsubili Isaga and Albogast Musabila
- Institutional and contextual factors effects on entrepreneurship in Cameroon: the case of the transport sector / Francoise Okah-Efogo and Crescence Marie-France Okah-Atenga
- Part 3. Entrepreneurship and sectoral considerations or determinants
- Dangote Cement: the challenges of pan-African expansion / Akinyinka Akinyoade and Chibuike Uche
- Culture as a facilitator and a barrier to entrepreneurship development in Uganda / Jane N.O. Khayesi, Arthur Sserwanga and Rebecca Kiconco
- African women large-scale entrepreneurs: cases from Angola, Nigeria and Ghana / Miriam Siun, Akinyinka Akinyoade and Ewurabena Quaye
- Financial barriers and how to overcome them: the case of women entrepreneurs in Tanzania / Marta Lindvert
- Gentlemanly capitalism and entrepreneurial management: formation and rise of Nigeria's Guaranty Trust Bank, 1990-2002 / Ayodeji Olukoju
- Indigenous banking enterprises: the rise of Nigerian multinational banks / Chibuike Uche.