1st Edition

Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector Challenges and Opportunities for African Business Development

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around entrepreneurship in Africa and how it can be made more sustainable. The chapters included highlight the need to consider the grey area between private and public sector dichotomy, which has been the focus of previous research efforts. The contributors to this book offer an intersectional view of entrepreneurship and widen the lens of inquiry... Read more

1. Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector: Challenges and Opportunities for African Business Development

Nnamdi O. Madichie, Ayantunji Gbadamosi and Pantaleo D. Rwelamila

2. Women Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: Understanding the Economic and Socio-Cultural Context of the Igbo Women’s Basket Weaving Enterprise in Nigeria

Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie, Christian Ehiobuche, Paul Agu Igwe, Michael Austin Agha-Okoro and Chukwuemeka Christian Onwe

3. Entrepreneurial Competencies and the Performance of Informal SMEs: The Contingent Role of Business Environment

Ayodotun Stephen Ibidunni, Oyedele Martins Ogundana and Arinze Okonkwo

4. Against the Norm? Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Gender and Resource Mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ikenna Uzuegbunam, Rachida Aïssaoui and Amy Taylor-Bianco

5. How to Start an African Informal Entrepreneurial Revolution?

Paul Agu Igwe and Chinedu Ochinanwata

6. The Effect of Militancy on Local and Informal Enterprises in Developing Countries: Evidence from Niger Delta

Ignatius Ekanem, Terence Jackson and Ayebaniminyo Munasuonyo

Biography

Nnamdi O. Madichie is Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship and Coordinator of the Center for Economic Governance and Leadership at the University of Kigali, Rwanda. He is also Research Fellow at the Bloomsbury Institute in London and Visiting Professor at both the Unizik Business School and Coal City University, Nigeria.

Ayantunji Gbadamosi is Associate Professor of Marketing and Co-chair for the School Research Ethics Committee at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law at the University of East London, UK.

Pantaleo D. Rwelamila is Professor of Project Management and Project Procurement Systems at the Graduate School of Business Leadership at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa.