Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy: Volume 15 Issue 5

Guest editorial

George Acheampong

Entrepreneurship and agriculture resources on national productivity in Africa: exploring for complementarities, synergies and thresholds

Maryam Kriese, Gladys Awinpoak Abindaw Nabieu, Daniel Ofori-Sasu, Baah Aye Kusi

Existent literature suggests that Africa is heavily endowed with agriculture resources and entrepreneurship remains an important mechanism for promoting national productivity and…

The role of entrepreneurship in reducing poverty in agricultural communities

Mufaro Dzingirai

Entrepreneurship has increasingly become a subject of interest for scholars and policymakers in an attempt to reduce poverty in agricultural communities across the world…

Towards an agricultural entrepreneurship development model: an empirical investigation in Namibia’s agricultural communities

Alex Bignotti, Alex J. Antonites, Uapirama J. Kavari

Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognised as a vehicle for bringing about the development of different economic sectors in various geographical regions, and it is believed…

What determines the performance of SMEs? Evidence from poultry farming in Ghana

Thomas Sarpong

The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors influencing the performance of poultry farmers and examine the potential disparities in performance among gender, formalization…

Motivation and the careers of agricultural entrepreneurs in Ivory Coast

Francis Milot-Lapointe, Sika Joëlle Prisca Boua, Etienne St-Jean

Following an incursion into the business world as an entrepreneur, many people go back to being salaried workers or unemployed. Using self-determination theory (SDT), this study…

Motivational factors into agriculture as a career path: narratives of Black emerging farmers as entrepreneurs in South Africa

Ziyanda Mpetile, Willie Chinyamurindi

The transformation of the agricultural landscape is deemed as an essential nation-building priority in post-democratic South Africa. Part of the activity of transformation is…

“Dodging the bullet”: are effectual managers better off in a crisis? A case of Ghanaian agricultural SMEs

Oliver Kwabena Aggrey, Alfred Kwadwo Djan, Naomi Abena Dei Antoh, Louis Numelio Tettey

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of causation decision-making and effectual decision-making logic in challenging economic situations within agricultural small and…