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This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around entrepreneurship in Africa and how it can be made more sustainable.
It is also a significant new contribution to studying informality in relation to business and entrepreneurship. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of African Business.
List of contents
1. Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector: Challenges and Opportunities for African Business Development 2. Women Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: Understanding the Economic and Socio-Cultural Context of the Igbo Women's Basket Weaving Enterprise in Nigeria 3. Entrepreneurial Competencies and the Performance of Informal SMEs: The Contingent Role of Business Environment 4. Against the Norm? Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Gender and Resource Mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa 5. How to Start an African Informal Entrepreneurial Revolution? 6. The Effect of Militancy on Local and Informal Enterprises in Developing Countries: Evidence from Niger Delta
About the author
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.
Summary
This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around entrepreneurship in Africa and how it can be made more sustainable. It is also a significant new contribution to studying informality in relation to business and entrepreneurship. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of African Business.
