Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa

Daniel Agyapong, Rosemond Boohene (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80392-540-0 (ISBN)

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Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa presents a timely and compelling account of African entrepreneurship, shedding light on the critical part it plays in the continent’s economic growth and development. It explores the various challenges, opportunities, and success stories that define the African entrepreneurial landscape and highlights the ingenuity and determination of the continent’s entrepreneurial minds.

Bringing together eminent scholars in the area, this book provides cutting-edge insights into African enterprise culture, and critically analyses issues of startups, managing enterprises, enterprise growth, and the uniqueness of trans-generational enterprises. It delves deep into the role of governments, investors, NGOs, and educational institutions in fostering an environment which allows for entrepreneurship to flourish. It also examines the power of networks and collaborations in building a support system that propels startups toward growth and success.

Both authoritative and stimulating, this book will be an invaluable resource for academics and students in business and management and entrepreneurial studies. It will similarly be an indispensable read for policymakers, investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs looking to better understand Africa’s entrepreneurial landscape.

Edited by Daniel Agyapong, Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Department of Finance, University of Cape Coast,and Rosemond Boohene, Professor of Enterprise Development, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Contents:

Foreword ix
Professor Mrs Rosemond Boohene
Preface xi

Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa 1
Daniel Agyapong and Rosemond Boohene

PART I ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AFRICA
1 Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for women in entrepreneurship 5
Amandla Sithole, Jayrusha Ramasamy-Gurayah and Andrisha Beharry-Ramraj
2 New businesses, employment, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 20
James Atta Peprah, Evans Kulu and Richmond Forson

PART II BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
3 Accounting for the informalisation of small-scale enterprises: evidence
from Ghana’s gold mining industry 37
James Tuffour, Swetketu Patnaik, Maureen Ayikoru and Kwame Oduro Amoako

PART III MANAGING AND SUSTAINING ENTERPRISES
4 Discovering brand naming strategies used by black-owned
FMCG-SMMEs in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 54
Lindiwe Nqobile Kunene, Maxwell Agabu Phiri and Patmond Thokozani Mbhele
5 Selling by persuading: The rhetoric of student entrepreneurs on social media 80
Wincharles Coker

PART IV SUSTAINABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
ENTERPRISES IN AFRICA
6 A review of intellectual property laws in Ghana in the context of small
enterprises’ innovations and inventions 95
Daniel Agyapong, Keren Naa Abeka Arthur and Isaac Nketsiah

PART V ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
7 Arts entrepreneurship in higher educational institutions in theatre and
film studies in Ghana. Evidence from the University of Cape Coast 107
Promise Nyatepeh Nyatuame, Madinatu Bello, Albert Dennis, Ebo
Joseph Mefful, Gifty Oduro-Appiah, Daniel Kofi Brako and Wendy Aku
Sika Mamiya
8 ‘Arts’ lives matter: entrepreneurial university, the fate of the traditional
humanities, and the decolonial turn 131
Husein Inusah
9 Entrepreneurship education, agriculture and community development:
School of Agriculture, University of Cape Coast’s approach to job creation 145
Lawrence Acheampong and Fatimah Von Abubakari
10 Entrepreneurship education landscape in selected universities in Ghana 159
Enoch Mensah-Williams and Evelyn Derera
11 Entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial intentions and capacity
among undergraduate students of the University of Cape Coast 176
Dominic Owusu, Rebecca Dei Mensah, Isaac Kwadwo Anim and
Benedict Ofori Antwi
Afterword 195

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2024
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-80392-540-X / 180392540X
ISBN-13	978-1-80392-540-0 / 9781803925400
Zustand	Neuware