Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Opoku, Darko (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sandberg, Eve (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Africa-Politics and government.; Political economy.; Comparative politics.; Globalization.; Markets.; Entrepreneurship.; Development economics.; African Politics.; International Political Economy.; Comparative Politics.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Development Economics.

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses. Contributors to this volume detail the constraints placed on African entrepreneurs through rich case studies and challenge African le...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction to Analyzing African Entrepreneurs.- 2. Government-Business Relations and the Business Environment in Ghana.- 3. Ambivalent Union: State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Post-Independent Nigeria.- 4. South African Women Entrepreneurs: Challenging and Coping Strategies
• 5. Nigerian Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century: Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges and Coping Strategies of Nigerian Male and Female Entrepreneurs
• 6. Small-Scale Ghanaian Miners and the Textiles and Garment Industry in the Age of Chinese Economic Onslaught
• 7. Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century.