Index
Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa
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(2021), "Index", Nziku, D.M. and Struthers, J.J. (Ed.) Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 337-344. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-322-220211026
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INDEX
Access to government procurement opportunities (AGPOs)
, 220
Achievement motivation theory
, 215–217
Action research (AR)
, 194
intervention
, 203
Action team (AT)
, 201
Advanced economies
, 19, 21, 61
Africa
, 74, 82–83, 124, 195
Africa-focussed reports
, 135
GEM surveys
, 130
IP programmes in
, 268
RoSCA type in
, 278
sub-Saharan
, 122
women in
, 83, 87
youth dying in
, 216
Agriculture
, 29, 40–41, 49–53, 221, 267, 294–296
development
, 297–298
sector
, 298, 310
Algeria
economy and business context
, 295–296
soft commodities market
, 298–300
Amoral familism
, 63
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
, 323
Association
, 72, 323
Asymmetric approach
, 91–92
Backward linkages
, 272
Behavioural economics
, 91
loss aversion
, 91–95
tournament effects
, 95–96
British University of Egypt (BUE)
, 280
Broker–buyer relationship
, 304–306
agriculture development
, 297–298
in Algeria
, 294
Algeria’s economy and business context
, 295–296
Algeria’s soft commodities market
, 298–300
Algerian soft commodities imports
, 300–302
B2B relationships
, 307
brokerage challenges
, 306–309
cereals market
, 302
ease of doing business
, 297
hydrocarbon-based economy
, 296
political context
, 296
regulated cereal market
, 302–303
soft commodities trading
, 303–304
Capacity building on performance of women enterprise
, 107–108
Cereals market
, 302
Commodities markets
, 303
Community-based organisations (CBO)
, 208
Conflict
, 196
resolutions
, 63
and SV
, 196–198
Conflict transformation (CT)
, 197–198
SE as CT approach
, 199–200
SE in CT
, 207
Constructivist grounded theory
, 123
Context
, 6–7, 16, 317, 331
African
, 4, 6, 21, 59
Algerian
, 176
of broker–buyer relationships
, 11
institutional
, 255
Nigerian
, 67
principal-agent
, 44
Control of corruption (CC)
, 9, 44, 232–233
Corona virus disease
, 215
Correlation analysis of variables
, 327
Critical discourse analysis (CDA)
, 8, 123
Cultural
changes in environment
, 174
cultural-specific networks
, 64
differences
, 20–21
distortion
, 242
diversity of people
, 3
dynamics
, 41
institutions
, 19
reproduction
, 105
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
, 248
Developing countries
, 7, 10, 28, 30, 73, 82–83, 87, 97, 234, 316
businesses in
, 17
entrepreneurial activities in
, 18
tax in
, 334
Diversity
, 31, 175
degree of
, 47
of narratives
, 66
Durbin and Watson test
, 326
Dutch Disease
, 184
Eastern Industrial Zone (EIZ)
, 261
Economic action
, 66
Economic activities
, 181
African cultural context
, 7
embeddedness and
, 19–20
Economic development
, 16, 103
in Africa
, 9–11
aspects
, 5
contradictions of entrepreneurship and
, 21–24
criticism of models
, 185
industrial parks as instruments of
, 263–270
linking entrepreneurship and
, 17–19
lowest levels
, 3
Economic factors
, 106–107
Economic growth and governance in Africa
counter argument
, 242–243
data analysis
, 235–238
decline in governance
, 238–240
PSOs
, 233, 234, 241
traditional outsourcing
, 241–242
VFM
, 240
Economic growth/development
, 16–17
contradictions of
, 21–24
entrepreneurship and
, 17–19
Economies
African
, 5
factor-driven
, 21
low-income
, 262
mature
, 68
productive
, 12
of scale
, 10, 268
stages of
, 21
Efficiency-driven economies
, 21
Embeddedness
, 60
and economic activities
, 19–20
Nigerian SMEs
, 61–63
social
, 19
theory
, 64
Emerging economies
, 63, 252–254, 260
Enterprise in Africa
, 5–7
Entrepreneur
, 16, 20, 30, 61–62, 86–87, 107, 136, 175–177, 180, 199
Entrepreneurial situation
, 16
Entrepreneurship
, 15, 16
activities in African countries
, 23, 25
business regulations
, 29
business venture/measuring performance
, 26–28
contradictions of
, 21–24
economic activities
, 19–20
and economic development
, 17–19
in economic growth
, 24
inadequate capital
, 30
infrastructural capacity
, 29
me-too syndrome
, 28
necessity entrepreneurship
, 20–21
opportunity-driven Entrepreneurship
, 20–21
stages of economies
, 21
unemployment
, 28
Entrepreneurship enablers
, 180
globalisation
, 181
policy programmes
, 181–182
social change
, 182–183
Entrepreneurship in Africa
, 3, 5–7, 122
academic literature
, 127, 150–167
African youth employment
, 124–125, 133–135
allegories of young people
, 130–132
data collection
, 126
essentialism of
, 130–132
GEM
, 123–8, 145
GEM Literature Coding Tree
, 129
journal abbreviations
, 167–171
national reports
, 146–149
specialist reports
, 149
textual outputs
, 126
theory and CDA
, 127–128
youth employment challenge
, 135–139
Entrepreneurship Policy Framework (EPF)
, 48
Expected utility theory
, 87, 91–92
Exporting
, 21, 60
enterprises
, 260
entrepreneurial activities
, 61
firms
, 255
role of networks in SME
, 63–64
‘Factor-driven’ economies
, 21
Family and kinship
, 73
trust in
, 67–68
Farm entrepreneurship (FE)
, 40, 41
empirical studies on
, 43
Farmers training centres (FTC)
, 45
Female entrepreneurship in Africa
, 82
barriers facing
, 84–86
behavioural economics
, 91–96
PA taxonomy
, 88–90
reasonable gain and affordable loss
, 91
social networks among
, 86–87
SWT with P-A concept
, 87, 91
Financial performance
, 317
ability-to-pay approach theory
, 318
adjusted net income and
, 318–319
correlation analysis of variables
, 327
data analysis
, 323–324
firm age and
, 320
firm liquidity and
, 319–320
income tax and
, 320–322, 331–332
multivariate analysis
, 327–330
practical implication
, 333–334
research design
, 322
research limitation
, 334
sample size and sampling techniques
, 322–323
social implication
, 333
staff feeding
, 320–322
test of assumptions
, 324–326
‘Fly-by-night’ buyers
, 308
Foreign direct investments (FDI)
, 174, 179, 260, 316
Gender entrepreneurship in Africa
, 7–9
Geographical locations
, 18, 24, 31
Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI)
, 50
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
, 4, 16, 44, 83–84, 122, 123–124
definitions of entrepreneurship
, 125–126
Global Entrepreneurship Programme
, 182
Global value chains (GVCs)
, 4, 260
Globalisation
, 180–182
benefits of
, 254
economic
, 181
hyper-globalisation
, 265
Goodness-of-fit test
, 325
Governance indicators (GIs)
, 9, 44, 232
Government effectiveness (GE)
, 9, 44, 232–233
Government of Rwanda
, 316
Graduate Enterprise Academy (GEA)
, 215
activities-driven strategic partnerships
, 224–225
beneficiaries
, 223
business categories and numbers
, 221
MKU’s
, 215, 218–221
STEP Programme at
, 222–223
Gross domestic product (GDP)
, 18, 176, 232, 296
Group borrowing
, 7, 96
High self-control (HSC)
, 284
Homogenous group
, 66
Horizontal approach
, 47
Hotel age and financial performance
, 320, 329, 331–332
Hotel liquidity
, 319–320
‘Hotels Give to Get’ principle
, 318, 331
Hydrocarbon-based economy
, 296
Hyper-globalisation
, 265
Impact analysis theory (IAT)
, 8, 174
Income tax
, 320–322
IncubMe
, 182
Indigenous
entrepreneurs
, 28
institutions
, 60–61, 66, 73
and local theory
, 4
market associations
, 74
Nigerian SMEs
, 66
Industrial parks (IPs)
, 259
in clustering
, 268–269
development impact of
, 270–272
in Ethiopia’s Industrialisation Agenda
, 261–263
as instruments of economic development
, 263
as instruments of regional development policy
, 269–270
investment mobilization
, 263–264
manufactured exports in era of GVCs
, 264–266
role of
, 266–268
Informal entrepreneurship
, 248–252
Informal rules
, 61, 74
Informality in Africa
, 246, 248
Information seeking
, 85–86
Innovation-driven economies
, 21
Institutional capital
, 86
‘Institutional drivers of firms’ registration
, 247–248
Institutions and firm registration in Africa
empirical analysis
, 250
informal entrepreneurship
, 248–250
informality in Africa
, 246, 248
‘institutional drivers of firms’ registration
, 247–248
OLS model of determinants
, 253
primary equation
, 251
probit model
, 252
public policymakers
, 255–256
selection equation
, 251, 252
Instrumental networks
, 86
Intermediaries
, 67–68, 294
financial
, 106
unlicenced and unregulated
, 175
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
, 130, 134
International Labour Office/Organization (ILO)
, 123, 176, 247
International trade
, 22, 61
Interviews
, 25, 45, 66
Kenya
, 7, 8, 103–104, 219, 278
Law courts
, 69
Least developed countries (LDCs)
, 40, 261
Legal mechanisms
, 62
Legitimacy
, 22, 63–64
Lending factors
, 107
Loss aversion
, 91, 91–95
Low self-control (LSC)
, 284
Macro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs)
, 50
Managerial constraint factors
, 107
Manufacturing
, 40, 181, 221, 318
activities
, 260
economic importance
, 246
employment opportunities in
, 263
IP-based manufacturing activities
, 271
MSMEs
, 53, 66
sector
, 267
Markets
, 6, 17, 19, 29, 310
foreign
, 69
formal national and international
, 52
international
, 263
lack of formal
, 51
rural
, 42
West African
, 66
Me-too syndrome
, 25–28
Members of Parliament (MPs)
, 205
Mentoring
, 103, 219–220, 223, 242
Micro and small enterprises (MSEs)
, 107, 278
Micro-finance institutions (MFIs)
, 106
Middlemen
, 67
Millennium Development Goal (MDG)
, 106
Moderate self-control (MSC)
, 284
Mount Kenya University (MKU)
, 8, 213, 215
GEA
, 215, 218–221
Multiple case studies
, 64, 66, 74
Multivariate analysis
, 327–330
Narratives
, 64, 66
development
, 123
inter-related discursive
, 133
patriarchal
, 182
policy
, 122
National Gender and Development Policy
, 103
National Women’s Policy
, 103
Necessity entrepreneurship
, 20–21, 177
Network relationships, Nigerian SMEs
, 61–63
Networking
, 44, 48, 86, 203
export
, 69
personal relationship and
, 309
Networks
, 6, 60–62, 304
capital
, 86
family and kinship
, 67
farmers
, 45
Ghanaian
, 64
horizontal trust
, 234
informal
, 74, 87
in SME exporting
, 63–64
social
, 19, 30, 60, 86
Nigeria
, 5–6, 24–25, 27–28, 45–46, 60–61, 64, 67–71, 73–74, 85, 106, 213, 268
Nigerian SMEs
, 60
contracts and personal trust in exporting SME networks
, 68–69
embeddedness
, 61–63
entrepreneurial action
, 64
network relationships
, 61–63
networks in SME exporting
, 63–64
participant exporting SMEs
, 65
semi-structured interviews
, 66
trade associations
, 69–72
trust
, 61–63
trust in family and kinship
, 67–68
Non-farm entrepreneurship (NFE)
, 40–41
empirical studies on
, 43
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
, 104
Norton Town Council (NTC)
, 204
Office Algerien Interprofessionnel des Cereales (OAIC)
, 303
One size fits all approach
, 6, 8, 48
Opportunity-based approach
, 8, 174
Opportunity-driven entrepreneurship
, 20–21
Ordinary least squares (OLS)
, 250, 253
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
, 102
Other developing countries (ODCs)
, 41
Perception
, 26, 45, 118, 304, 316
Personal networks
, 68, 86
Persons living with disabilities (PLWDs)
, 220
‘Picking winners’ strategy
, 47
Policy programmes
, 181–182
Principal-Agent paradigm (P-A paradigm)
, 7, 81, 83
Private Sector Federation (PSF)
, 316
Prize spread
, 95–96
Process attributes
, 51
Process theory
, 105
Product attributes
, 51
Prospect theory
, 91–92
Psychic distance
, 63
Public service organisations (PSOs)
, 233–234
Public–private partnerships (PPPs)
, 48, 97
Qualitative study
, 6, 24, 60, 74, 288
Quantitative methods
, 64, 74
Rational choice theory
, 104
Regulated cereal market
, 302–303
Resource curse
, 184
Respondents
, 10, 26, 66, 68–69, 92–93, 96, 101, 110–114, 116–117, 279, 283–284, 286–289
Return on asset (ROA)
, 316
Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (RoSCAs)
, 10, 277–278
data description and characteristics
, 280–284
in Egypt
, 279–280
participation and self-control
, 284–286
participation and social preferences
, 286–288
participation and trust
, 288–289
Rule of law (RL)
, 232–233
Rural enterprises
, 42
inter-sectoral linkages within
, 41–42
success
, 54
Rural entrepreneurship
, 40–41 (see also Youth entrepreneurship)
economic activities in rural areas
, 53–54
empirical studies on barriers to
, 46
policies in countries of SSA
, 48
policies to supporting
, 47–48
smallholders and domestic and foreign companies
, 51–53
in SSA
, 42
stylised facts on
, 54
subsistence farming
, 48–51
transforming barriers to enablers
, 42–46
Rwanda Development Board (RDB)
, 316
Rwanda taxation
, 317
Sanctions
, 62–63, 66
Self-control
, 284–286
Semi-structured interviews
, 66
Seven-year programme
, 50
Skills-based self-employment entrepreneurship strategy
, 135–137
Small and Medium Enterprises Agency Act of 2015
, 50
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
, 6, 18, 47–48, 60, 102 (see also Nigerian SMEs)
owner-manager
, 61
Social capital
, 86–87, 207–208
Social change
, 182–183
Social entrepreneurship (SE)
, 8, 183, 193–194
as CT approach
, 199–200, 207
Social factors
, 106–107
Social injustice transformation model
, 200
Social networks among women entrepreneurs
, 86–87
Social value orientation (SVO)
, 279
Socio-economic context
, 6, 93–94
Socio-economic processes, youth participation in
, 194–196
Socio-economic relations
, 64
Soft commodities
Algeria’s soft commodities market
, 298–300
imports
, 300–302
trading
, 303–304
Staff feeding
, 320–322
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
, 323
STEP Programme at GEA
, 222–223
STEP-4-Youth programme (STEP 4Y programme)
, 223
Strength of weak ties (SWT)
, 7, 81–82
with P-A concept
, 87, 91
Structural violence (SV)
, 194, 197
addressing
, 204–205
conflict and
, 196–198
Students Training for Entrepreneurial Promotion (STEP)
, 218
Sub-Saharan African (SSA)
, 6, 22, 40, 83
Subsistence farming
, 40, 48–51
System theory
, 105
Technical factors
, 106
Thematic analysis
, 66
Thematic Apperception Tests (TATs)
, 217
Themes
, 3, 25–26, 60, 66, 126, 129–130
Total entrepreneurial activity (TEA)
, 125
Tournament effects
, 7, 95–96
Transaction attributes
, 51
Transformative paradigm
, 201
Trust
, 61–63
in family and kinship
, 67–68
Nigerian SMEs
, 61–63
RoSCAs participation and
, 288–289
violation
, 197
Unemployment intervention in Africa
achievement motivation theory
, 215–217
GEA at MKU
, 217–218
GEA model
, 222–227
MKU’s GEA
, 215, 218–221
UNESCO’s Education
, 214
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
, 3, 21, 40
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
, 48
United Republic of Tanzania (URT)
, 40
Variance inflation factor (VIF)
, 325
Weak ties
, 81–82
West Africa
, 60–61, 63, 66–70
Women empowerment
, 103
accessibility of credit
, 106–107
capacity building on performance of women enterprise
, 107–108
conceptual framework
, 104–105
correlation analysis
, 114–115
criticism of theories
, 105–106
demographic characteristics
, 110–112
description of data analysis procedures
, 110
description of research instruments
, 110
effects of gender enterprise fund
, 112–114, 116–117
effects of WEDF loans
, 106, 114, 117
multiple regression analysis
, 115–116
rational choice theory
, 104
research design and methodology
, 109–110
review of theories
, 105
women enterprise on household livelihoods
, 108–109
women-owned SMEs
, 118
Women Enterprise and Development Fund (WEDF)
, 7, 104–105
Women Enterprise Fund (WEF)
, 103
Women’s entrepreneurship
, 82, 102
World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES)
, 246
World Economic Outlook (WEO)
, 247
Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
, 44
‘Youth bulge’
, 124
Youth Enterprise Development Fund
, 103
Youth entrepreneurship
, 174 (see also Female entrepreneurship in Africa; Rural entrepreneurship)
in Algeria
, 187
barriers to entrepreneurship
, 177
bureaucratic obstacles
, 179
criticism of models of economic development
, 185
economic development
, 184
and economic growth for Algeria
, 186
enablers
, 180–183
foreign direct investments
, 179
gender considerations
, 179–180
soft skills
, 180
venture capital
, 178–179
youth engagement and employment
, 175–177
Youth participation in socio-economic processes
, 194–196
Youth unemployment in Africa
, 7–9
Zimbabwe, SV transformation model
, 193–194
action plan
, 204
addressing SV
, 204–205
AR intervention
, 203
conflict and SV
, 196–198
CT
, 197–198
limitations and considerations
, 208
outcomes of tested solutions
, 205–206
research approach
, 202
SE as CT approach
, 199–200
SE in peace building
, 206–208
social injustice transformation model
, 200
study area and sampling approach
, 201–202
SV transformation model
, 200–201
transformative paradigm
, 201
youth participation in socio-economic processes
, 194–196
- Prelims
- Part A: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Africa
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa: The Way Forward
- Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Africa: A Paradox
- Chapter 3: Rural Farm and Non-farm Based Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
- Chapter 4: Trust in Nigerian SMEs Exporting to West African Market
- Part B: Gender Entrepreneurship and Youth Unemployment in Africa
- Chapter 5: Female Entrepreneurship in Africa: Relationships between SWT and P-A Theory, Behavioural Economics Insights
- Chapter 6: Effects of Gender Enterprise on Women Empowerment in Eldoret – Kenya
- Chapter 7: Entrepreneurship in Africa: Explaining Why it Became a Primary Solution to Youth Unemployment?
- Chapter 8: Challenges of Algeria’s Economic Development: A Youth Entrepreneurship Perspective
- Chapter 9: Using Social Entrepreneurship to Reverse Barriers to Socio-economic Youth Participation: An Example from Zimbabwe
- Chapter 10: Unemployment Intervention in Africa: A Case Study on Mount Kenya University’s Graduate Enterprise Academy
- Part C: Economic Development (Governance and Institutions) in Africa
- Chapter 11: Economic Growth and Governance in Africa: Are They Compatible?
- Chapter 12: Institutions and Firm Registration in Africa
- Chapter 13: Industrial Parks in Ethiopia: Newcomer Advantages
- Chapter 14: RoSCAs in Africa: The Case of Egypt
- Chapter 15: Algeria’s Economy and Soft Commodities Market: An Analysis of Broker–Buyer Relationship
- Chapter 16: Income Tax and Financial Performance of the Hotel Industry in Rwanda
- Index