African Entrepreneurship in Global Context: Enterprise solutions to sustainable development
The most profound and encouraging change in African economies over the past decade has been the rapid advancement towards integration into the global economy. Concurrent with institutional reforms are policies to improve the conditions for enterprise to thrive and provide a dynamic source of growth. The significance of the changes taking place in Africa to promote entrepreneurship as a force for development cannot be underestimated. There is much at stake in continuing this process of scaling up entrepreneurship as a dynamic process towards sustainable development. There is still a lot to learn about how African countries are applying ‘enterprise solutions’ to the problems of economic deprivations. Without doubt, success in entrepreneurship is crucially important in the much expected economic renaissance of Africa. The reality, however, is that the essential characters of entrepreneurial landscapes in many Africa nations are profoundly changing in ways that require new modes of thought, analysis and explanation. Accordingly, this book offers cutting-edge contributions aimed at unpacking the paradoxes of entrepreneurship in African contexts and provide an overview of SD in relation to entrepreneurship; patterns and growth trajectories, development impacts, networks, institutions and identities, challenges, changing contexts and prospects. This book represents the outcome of many comprehensive research programs undertaken in different countries in Africa and other parts of the world covering a wide geographical spectrum and written by renowned international experts in the field.
Editors:
Professor Sonny Nwankwo, University of East London, UK
Dr Allam Ahmed, University of Susses, UK
ISBN: 978-1-907106-11-8
Year: 2012