Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 25 Issue 4

Entrepreneurship in Africa, part 2: entrepreneurial education and eco-systems

Paul Jones, Gideon Maas, Stephen Dobson, Robert Newbery, Daniel Agyapong, Harry Matlay

Capability, social capital and opportunity-driven graduate entrepreneurship in Tanzania

Ingrid Wakkee, Karel Hoestenberghe, Ernest Mwasalwiba

The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the reasons why most Tanzanian graduates do not consider entrepreneurship as an attractive career option despite dire labor…

Entrepreneurship education in Ghana – the case of the KNUST entrepreneurship clinic

Ralph Nyadu-Addo, Mavis Serwah Benneh Mensah

Entrepreneurship education thrives on the pillars of experiential education. Using the case of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, the purpose of this…

Entrepreneurship education knowledge transfer in a conflict Sub-Saharan African context

Paschal Anosike

The purpose of this paper is to explore how entrepreneurship education (EE) interacts with knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial behaviour in a conflict Sub-Saharan African…

Entrepreneurial learning – a social context perspective: evidence from Kenya and Tanzania

Lise Hunter, Jonathan Lean

Drawing on entrepreneurship as a social process, the purpose of this paper is to proposes a model of entrepreneurial learning where contextual social and economic structures gain…

SME finance and the construction of value in Rwanda

Aaron van Klyton, Said Rutabayiro-Ngoga

The purpose of this paper is to explore how entrepreneurs, banks, the government, and alternative lending respond to finance gaps for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This…

Developing entrepreneurship in Africa: investigating critical resource challenges

Victor Yawo Atiase, Samia Mahmood, Yong Wang, David Botchie

By drawing upon institutional theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of four critical resources (credit, electricity, contract enforcement and political…

The relationship of personality to cognitive characteristics and SME performance in Tanzania

Nsubili Isaga

Focussing on the relationship between personality traits and small and medium enterprise (SME) performance in Tanzania’s furniture sector, the purpose of this paper is to examine…

How does national culture enable or constrain entrepreneurship? Exploring the role of Harambee in Kenya

Natalia Vershinina, Kassa Woldesenbet Beta, William Murithi

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise how various value dimensions of Harambee, the Kenyan culture, affect the fostering of entrepreneurial behaviours. Theoretically, we…