Home Features Mastermind Videos About Advertise Blog Network Contact
   

Have A Suggestion?
Toronto Salsa Classes / Toronto Salsa Lessons Email us your ideas on how to make our website more valuable! Thank you Sharon from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for your suggestions to make the newsletter look like the website and profile younger entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez and Sean Combs!
Have A Suggestion?

Featured Ebook


ebook Famous Entrepreneurs - Modern Empire Builders


Featured Ebook

More Evan Carmichael
Have A Suggestion?

Sales Lessons From Starbucks And Dell

8.0 The Entrepreneurial Firm: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa

 
African Accounts - Meet The Authors
Erik , Zungu Erik Hersman
Zungu
Shell , Resource Shell Foundation
Resource
International , Resource International Labour Organization
Resource
Zahid , BAA Zahid Torres-Rahman
BAA
African Accounts - Meet The Authors
8.0 The Entrepreneurial Firm: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
   

(Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Oct 2002 by Kiggundu, Moses N)

In addition to competencies of the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship requires effective and dynamic organizational arrangements in order to remain successful. Such arrangements are needed for mobilizing, organizing, utilizing, protecting and developing resources, keeping in place strategic corporate governance, and sustaining beneficial networks and clusters. African entrepreneurs experience serious difficulties in developing and sustaining effective organizational arrangements, especially as the business moves from the informal to the formal, (Mead, 1999), when it faces external threats such as new technology and fluctuations in the political or macroeconomic environment (Kiggundu, 1989), during succession (Sam, 1998), or when facing regional or global competition (Buame, 1996). These constraints constitute a serious obstacle to entrepreneurial development and the scaling up needed for survival, growth and competitiveness. Below is a discussion about organization form, networking, capital resources, and corporate governance.



To learn more about this author, visit Journal of Development Entrepreneurship's Website.

Like this article? Share it with your friends


Related Articles Related Articles
1.0 What is known and what needs to be done: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  This article summarizes what is known about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa using three broad categories: The Entrepreneur, The Entrepreneurial Firm, and The External Environment.
14.0 What Needs to be Done - Producing Useable Knowledge: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  The way forwarded should be guided by four key strategies. These include generating useable knowledge, producing better research, scaling up, and mainstreaming entrepreneurship. Each is explored below.
SME's - still a strong component in the South African economy
  Despite the educational crisis in South Africa, entrepreneurship is thriving, albeit not the way it could be!
18.0 Conclusion: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  Ultimately, the future of entrepreneurship in Africa must be in the hands of the Africans themselves.
6.0 The African Entrepreneur Behavioral Patterns: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  Successful entrepreneurs display a pattern of behavior different than the less successful ones. This is not surprising given that entrepreneurs differ in important demographic and psychological traits.

Related Forum Posts Related Forum Posts
My Favorite Entrepreneur – created by Armand Rousso My Favorite Entrepreneur – created by Armand Rousso
Famous Entrepreneur Schedule Famous Entrepreneur Schedule
Kiva Kiva
Book: The Essentials of Entrepreneurship: What it takes to c Book: The Essentials of Entrepreneurship: What it takes to c
Giving back Giving back
What do you do to give back? What do you do to give back?
Re: My Favorite Entrepreneur – created by Armand Rousso Re: My Favorite Entrepreneur – created by Armand Rousso
Fundraising for 3rd world Entrepreneurs Fundraising for 3rd world Entrepreneurs

 
About the Author


Journal of Development Entrepreneurship
(Visit Journal of's Website)
The Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) provides a forum for the dissemination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical research that focuses on issues concerning microenterprise and small business development, especially under conditions of adversity.
Have A Suggestion?

View Author's Video
Become An Author

Free Downloads


Journal of Development Entrepreneurship's

Complete
List Of
African-Accounts
Articles


First Name
Last Name
Email
 
If you enjoyed this article, get Journal of Development Entrepreneurship's Complete List of African-Accounts Articles For FREE!
Become An Author