Full Description
This book explores the recent trends and challenges facing entrepreneurship in Africa. It features several chapters that cut across various contexts, highlighting aspects of social entrepreneurship, faith-based entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial financing, equality, diversity, inclusion, digital and technological transformation and regulations and enabling ecosystems across African countries. The chapters will be underpinned by a critical approach to understanding the trends and challenges in African entrepreneurship, which goes beyond focusing on the business cases but considers the sensitivity of the national context. The authors have a wealth of professional and academic experience. They have taught in institutions around the world and between them have worked in several managerial and entrepreneurial positions.
Contents
Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship: The Global Economic Landscape.- SECTION 1: INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES.- Chapter 2: A Measure of the Impacts of Productive, Unproductive and Destructive Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth and Development in Africa.- Chapter 3: Addressing the Challenges of Entrepreneurial Finance in the Face of Changing Regulations in the Republic of Benin.- Chapter 4: External versus Internal Funding: Entrepreneurial Competencies as a Mediator of Financing Strategies for Informal Economy SMEs.- SECTION 2: GENDER-BASED AND YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP.- Chapter 5: Social Capital and Women Entrepreneur Success in Egypt: Exploring Network, Trust and Empowerment.- Chapter 6: Gender Equality and Flexible Working for Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt: A Critical Analysis.- Chapter 7: Multiplying and Mixing: Livelihoods Strategies among Out-of-School Youth in Tanzania.- Chapter 8: Youth Entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe: Unlocking the Next Generation's Potential.- Chapter 9: Critical Appraisal of Women Entrepreneurship and Economic Inclusion in Cameroon.- SECTION 3: FAITH- BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP.- Chapter 10: If Tithing is Good; How Good is it for Business? - A Research Agenda for Africa.- Chapter 11: Faith-Based Entrepreneurship as Ultra-Religious Entrepreneurship: Definition, Essence, Strands, Theoretical Underpinning, and Theological Foundation.- SECTION 4: ENTREPRENEURIAL TRENDS AND CHALLENGES.- Chapter 12: "Entrepreneurship in Sierra Leone; Navigating Challenges amidst Socio-Political Transformations".- Chapter 13: Entrepreneurial Universities: A Multi-Context Perspective.- Chapter 14: Issues, Trends and Challenges of Entrepreneurship in East Africa: The Ugandan Experience.- Chapter 15: The State of Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Nigeria.- Chapter 16: The Contemporary Constraints and Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurship in Sudan.- Chapter 17: Transitional Challenges in Lagos' (Nigeria) Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Multi-level Analysis.
