Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector: Challenges and Opportunities for African Business Development

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around entrepreneurship in Africa and how it can be made more sustainable. The chapters included highlight the need to consider the grey area between private and public sector dichotomy, which has been the focus of previous research efforts. The contributors to this book offer an intersectional view of entrepreneurship and widen the lens of inquiry to include informal sectors in discussions pertaining to innovation in business.

Table of Contents

1. Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector: Challenges and Opportunities for African Business Development

Nnamdi O. Madichie, Ayantunji Gbadamosi and Pantaleo D. Rwelamila

2. Women Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: Understanding the Economic and Socio-Cultural Context of the Igbo Women’s Basket Weaving Enterprise in Nigeria

Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie, Christian Ehiobuche, Paul Agu Igwe, Michael Austin Agha-Okoro and Chukwuemeka Christian Onwe

3. Entrepreneurial Competencies and the Performance of Informal SMEs: The Contingent Role of Business Environment

Ayodotun Stephen Ibidunni, Oyedele Martins Ogundana and Arinze Okonkwo

4. Against the Norm? Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Gender and Resource Mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ikenna Uzuegbunam, Rachida Aïssaoui and Amy Taylor-Bianco

5. How to Start an African Informal Entrepreneurial Revolution?

Paul Agu Igwe and Chinedu Ochinanwata

6. The Effect of Militancy on Local and Informal Enterprises in Developing Countries: Evidence from Niger Delta

Ignatius Ekanem, Terence Jackson and Ayebaniminyo Munasuonyo

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