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African entrepreneurship : theory and reality /

Practical and penetrating, this collection explores the varieties of entrepreneurship in Africa - rural and urban, legal and illegal, formal and informal - and considers the vital role of entrepreneurs in the economic development of the continent from Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon to Kenya, Zimbabwe,...

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Other Authors: Spring, Anita., McDade, Barbara E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Entrepreneuership in Africa : traditional and contemporary paradigms /
  • Anita Spring and Barbar E. McDade
  • Creatively coping with crisis : entrepreneuers in the second economy of Zaire, the Democratic Republic of Congo /
  • Janet MacGaffey
  • What drives the small-scale enterprise sector in Zimbabwe : surplus labor or market demand? /
  • Lisa Daniels
  • Black entrepreneuers in post-Apartheid South Africa /
  • Okechukwu C. Iheduru
  • Differentiation among small-scale enterprises : the Zambian clothing industry in Lusaka /
  • Mwango Kasengele.
  • Women entrepreneuers? : trade and gender division of labor in Nairobi /
  • Claire C. Robertson
  • Overcoming challenges : women microentrepreneuers in Harare, Zimbabwe /
  • Nancy E. Horn
  • Entrepreneuers and family well-being : agricultural and trading households in Cameroon /
  • Judith Krieger
  • A historical perspective on African entrepreneuership : lessons from the Duala experience in Cameroon /
  • Yvette Monga
  • Managers and their entrepreneuers : power and authority in indigenous private manufacturing firms in Nigeria /
  • Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu
  • Entrepreneuerial characteristics and business success in artisan enterprises in Ghana /
  • Barbara E. McDale.
  • Policy lessons from the Kenyan experience in promoting African entrepreneuership in commerce and industry /
  • David Himbara
  • Institutional constraints on entrepreneuership in Kenya's popular music industry /
  • Robert A. Blewett and Michael Farley
  • Trade credit in Zimbabwe /
  • Marcel Fafchamps
  • Negotiating identities during adjustment programs : women microentrepreneuers in urban Zimbabwe /
  • Mary Johnson Osirim
  • The role of entrepreneuership in improving policy credibility in South Africa /
  • Willem Naudé.