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Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa

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Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa

EDITED BY

DINA M. NZIKU

University of the West of Scotland, UK

JOHN J. STRUTHERS

University of the West of Scotland, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication Page

To my parents, brothers, sisters and all striving entrepreneurs out there.

Dina Modestus Nziku (PhD)

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

About the Editors

Editors Biographies

Dina M. Nziku (PhD) is a Lecturer, Researcher and Director for Research and Publications in the Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. She is the Lead of Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Entrepreneurship Thought Leader at Women Economic Imperative (WEI). Her research focusses on women entrepreneurship.

John J. Struthers is a Professor and Director of the Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) University of West of Scotland. In recent years his research has focused on commodity price volatility in developing countries. Among his numerous publications he co-edited a book in 2018: Logistics and Global Value Chains in Africa: Impact on Trade and Development. In 2015, he was appointed as Honorary Consul for Ethiopia in Scotland and in 2018 he was appointed as Chancellor of Mount Kenya University.

Authors Biographies

John Adams is a Doctoral Supervisor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. His research includes economic development and he has published numerous papers in this and related areas of economics.

Isaac Amoako is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, UK. His current research interests are: entrepreneurship and SMEs management, trust, institutions and entrepreneurship/small business management in Africa. He is the author of Trust, Institutions, and Managing Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa: An SME Perspective.

Joseph Baricako is an Economist at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. He has contributed extensively in many areas of economics, for example, development, international economics, macroeconomics, economic geography, econometrics and regional integration. He has several journal publications and book chapters. Before joining the United Nations in 2006, he was a Professor of Economics and researcher in different universities.

Ahmed Beloucif is a Doctoral Supervisor for (DBA/PhD) in multidisciplinary areas at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. His current research interest expands to entrepreneurship, marketing, strategy, corporate reputation and Islamic studies (finance, marketing and entrepreneurship).

Eman Elish is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the British University in Egypt. Her research is focussed on growth and economic development and she has presented her work at numerous international conferences in Europe and the Middle East.

Veronika Gustafsson is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Uppsala University. Her home turf in entrepreneurship research is entrepreneurial cognition. Her research focusses on the cross-fertilisation of cognitive psychology, entrepreneurship theory in an entrepreneurial context. She is the author of Entrepreneurial Decision-making: Individuals, Tasks and Cognitions.

Omar Habimana holds a PhD in Finance, MBA and Bachelor degree’s in Economics. He is a Part-time Lecturer at Mount Kenya University and a Director at REVAS a research company. He is affiliated in the Rwandan tax advisory body and a member of the Rwandan private companies’ Board of Director.

Stephen Hunt is Research Manager at the Challenges Group, UK. His work focusses on demand-led solutions to active labour market integration of vulnerable groups, including youth. He has supported several organisations in youth employment activities across Africa, including DFID, IFAD, Mastercard Foundation and Standard Chartered Foundation.

Abbi M. Kedir is an Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in International Business at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is an Applied Quantitative Economist with experience over 25 years in analysing and modelling development issues with a policy focus on African economies. His research interests include poverty, labour markets, urbanisation, entrepreneurship, trade, foreign direct investment and development finance.

Hillary Jephat Musarurwa is a Research Consultant at Practical Empowerment & Networking Youth Association, Zimbabwe. His research focusses on social inequalities and financial inclusion among youth, financial capability support, transformative service co-design, social innovation and youth empowerment in Africa.

Côme Nahimana holds a Master’s in Taxation and Bachelor’s Degree in Economics; he is currently a Tax Consultant and a member of the Tax Policy Committee in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwanda. He has worked for the Rwanda Revenue Authority as a Tax Auditor, Tax Collector and Investigator.

Ernestine N. Ning is an Early Career Researcher at the University of Edinburgh Business School, Scotland, UK. Her research is focussed on “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” with a keen interest in microfirms and family businesses.

Phelista Wangui Njeru is a Senior Lecturer at Mount Kenya University. Currently, she serves as a Head of the Economics Department of Mount Kenya University. She served as the Dean for School of Business and Economics in an acting capacity in the year 2016. She holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship Development and MBA in Entrepreneurship. She is an accredited trained trainer of trainers and a member of the Kenya Institute of Management. Her area of research interest includes entrepreneurship education, economic models, and small and medium enterprise development.

Dina Modestus Nziku (PhD) is a Lecturer, Researcher and Director for Research and Publications in the Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. She is the Lead of Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Entrepreneurship Thought Leader at Women Economic Imperative. Her research focusses on women entrepreneurship.

Kingsley Obi Omeihe is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management Practice at the University of University of the West of Scotland, UK. He is the Chair of African Studies at the British Academy of Management. Kingsley is working on an ongoing study of endogenous institutional change focussing on networks and norms of entrepreneurs in West Africa.

Abderrezak Osmani is co-founder and led the UK Algeria Business Council (www.uk-algeria.org) as CEO and has been its’ President since 2010. Currently, he is studying for a PhD at the University of the West of Scotland and working on youth entrepreneurship and challenges to economic growth in Algeria. His research interest area is democratisation of youth entrepreneurship.

Dina Rabie is a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg and an Assistant Lecturer at the British University in Egypt (BUE). She is the Director and Co-founder of the BUE Experimental and Behavioural Economics Laboratory. Her research focusses on individual decision making using behavioural and experimental economics methods.

Reda Emir Rebbah is a Soft Commodities Trader. With more than 20 years’ professional experience, he occupied positions as a country, regional manager and senior consultant of soft commodities for international companies. He is reading for a PhD at the University of the West of Scotland. His research interest is in the area of international trade of soft commodities.

Christine Jeptoo Sawe is a Lecturer of Business Administration (Strategic Management option) of Mount Kenya University, School of Business and Economics in the Department of Management. She has published a book entitled The Role of Organizational Culture on Schools' Academic Performance: A Case of St. Patrick's High School Iten in Kenya. She participates in community projects directed to self-help women groups. She has published in several refereed journals. She holds a PhD in Business Administration (Strategic Management option).

John Struthers is a Professor and Director of the Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) University of West of Scotland. Among his numerous publications, he co-edited a book in 2018 “Logistics and Global Value Chains in Africa: Impact on Trade and Development” (Palgrave Macmillan). In 2015, he was appointed as Honorary Consul for Ethiopia in Scotland and in 2018 he was appointed as Chancellor of Mount Kenya University.

Taffere Tesfachew, PhD, is Senior Advisor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Ethiopia. Until 2017, he was the Director of the Division on Africa and Least Developed Countries, at UNCTAD, Geneva. He is an Economist and has authored and co-authored on a range of topics, including technological learning, investment, trade and industrial policy.

Mwangi Peter Wanderi is an Associate Professor of Physical Education and Sports at Mount Kenya University. For more than three decades, he has taught, and has undertaken research and community outreach works in two areas that he has inter-linked in his scholarly career, namely, physical education and sports and youth entrepreneurial promotion. He has served at Mount Kenya University in various capacities including the Director, Quality Assurance and Linkages, Principal, Corporate Affairs as well as Acting Vice-Chancellor.

List of Contributors

Foreword

Alistair R Anderson

Acknowledgments

Editing this book has been harder than expected but also more rewarding than could ever have been imagined. Editing and writing this book would not have been possible without the support of parents, family and friends. Commencing this journey in a time of peace and harmony but then to be hit by the Coronavirus (Covid-19) global pandemic and lockdown, meant working from home became the norm for all of us.

We are very grateful to the entire team of chapter contributors and co-authors who despite the pandemic and lockdown worked diligently and revised their chapters in a timely fashion. This was very motivating and encouraging as we all worked to achieve the same goal.

Sincere appreciation goes to Prof. Alistair Anderson for taking the time to read the book and for providing a foreword for this edition. We are also very grateful to Prof. Leo Paul Dana for his helpful comments on the manuscript. Their advice and recommendations helped this book come to fruition.

To Niall, David, Sashikala, Sangeetha and the rest of the team at Emerald Publishing. Group who saw the novelty of this book and tirelessly provided the required support and guidance, from the original idea to organising the manuscript to designing the book cover, marketing and promotion of this edition.

Finally, a very special thanks to everyone in the Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development, School of Business and Creative Industries and the Director and all the team at the International Centre of the University of the West of Scotland.