Entrepreneurship in Africa: exploring entrepreneurial behaviour and small business practice within emerging contexts.
A Call for Papers from Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
Guest Editors
Professor Paul Jones (Coventry University, UK)
Professor Gideon Maas (Coventry University, UK)
Dr Stephen Dobson (Coventry University, UK)
Dr Daniel Agyapong (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)
Dr Robert Newbery (University of Newcastle, UK)
The phenomenon of entrepreneurship behaviour in the developed world is well recorded within the academic literature. However, literature observing entrepreneurial behaviour and small business practice on the African continent is less prominent especially within international journals. The entrepreneurial dynamic in Africa is rapidly evolving in the face of economic, political, technological and cultural change sweeping the continent. There is widespread recognition for the need for effective entrepreneurial behaviour to ease a myriad of systemic problems including high graduate unemployment, endemic poverty, economic growth inequality, corruption, excessive bureaucracy, ineffective infrastructure and a lack of enterprise support mechanisms. Moreover, research into entrepreneurial behaviours remains limited in the complex and heterogeneous African context. This special issue seeks to provide improved and increased understanding of the phenomena and offer recommendations for enhanced policy and practice across the African continent. Topics should consider but are not limited to:
Comparative country level studies of entrepreneurial behaviour and small business practice.
Diaspora entrepreneurship, trans-national diasporas and entrepreneurial networks.
Enabling opportunity / systemic entrepreneurship.
Ethnic entrepreneurship, spatial and temporal dimensions of ethnic minority businesses.
Family businesses.
Gender studies of entrepreneurial behaviour and small business practice.
Necessity and 'copy-cat' entrepreneurship and its evaluation.
Studies considering entrepreneurship education and its role in Africa.
Studies highlighting examples of best practice to enhance entrepreneurial behaviour or small business practice.
Studies of entrepreneurial behaviour or small business practice in a national and regional context.
Studies of rural entrepreneurship.
Technology usage as an enabler of entrepreneurial behaviour and small business practice.
The emergence of entrepreneurial activity in new industry sectors.
The role and emergence of social enterprise.
The role of transformational entrepreneurship in engendering change.
Studies will be considered in a comparative, regional, national or international context and can include case histories of entrepreneurial behaviour and small business practice, qualitative/quantitative or mixed method studies. The special issue would also welcome usage of novel or nascent data analysis methods. The special issue would particularly welcome submissions from African academics. All submissions will be subject to a rigorous double blind peer review process.
Initial enquiries should be directed toward Professor Paul Jones on: Paul.Jones@coventry.ac.uk
The last submission date for papers to the call will be February 28th 2017.
To view the full call for papers please see: http://bit.ly/2ebwYyw
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