Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses. Contributors to this volume detail the constraints placed on African entrepreneurs through rich case studies and challenge African leaders and international donors to review their own behaviors if they hope for African entrepreneurs to succeed.

List of contents

1. Introduction to Analyzing African Entrepreneurs.- 2. Government-Business Relations and the Business Environment in Ghana.- 3. Ambivalent Union: State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Post-Independent Nigeria.- 4. South African Women Entrepreneurs: Challenging and Coping Strategies.- 5. Nigerian Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century: Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges and Coping Strategies of Nigerian Male and Female Entrepreneurs.- 6. Small-Scale Ghanaian Miners and the Textiles and Garment Industry in the Age of Chinese Economic Onslaught.- 7. Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century.

About the author

Darko Opoku is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA. 
Eve Sandbergis Professor in the Politics Department at Oberlin College, USA.

Summary

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses. Contributors to this volume detail the constraints placed on African entrepreneurs through rich case studies and challenge African leaders and international donors to review their own behaviors if they hope for African entrepreneurs to succeed.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dark Opoku (Editor), Darko Opoku (Editor), Sandberg (Editor), Sandberg (Editor), Eve Sandberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319869803
• ISBN: 978-3-31-986980-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 12 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 303 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 214 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Afrika, B, Globalization, Market research, Entrepreneurship, Africa, International Relations, International business, auseinandersetzen, Markets, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Political Science and International Studies, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, African Politics, International Political Economy, Development Economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Africa—Politics and government, Development economics and emerging economies, Unternehmertum / Start-ups