Setting the Agenda for Entrepreneuring Across (Southern) Africa
Edited by Prof Kurt April and Dr Badri Zolfaghari
Sub-Saharan African is challenged and blessed with a dynamic mix of formal and informal sectors, laced with effective and ineffective layers of entrepreneurial behaviour and action.
Being entrepreneurial is not necessarily about creating entirely new business models, but about understanding context, social needs, environment, supply efficiency and security, the socio-economic layout, knowing the pain points for a society, community and for individuals, and seeking to relieve some or all of that pain by stepping into the available gaps or opportunities.
Challenges and opportunities around entrepreneurship in Africa
This book offers numerous ideas and perspectives on how to close these gaps, successfully navigate these challenges and implement practical, innovative solutions to constructively serve societies through the many obvious (and less obvious opportunities) on the continent.
Drawing on the insights of numerous global academic leaders, entrepreneurial business founders and owners, as well as leaders of NGOs and other civil society organisations, Values-Driven Entrepreneurship and Societal Impact will broaden your understanding of the key challenges and opportunities around entrepreneurship in Africa.
Values-Driven Entrepreneurship and Societal Impact will address key issues such as:
- Social enterprise and its contextual challenges
- B Corps on the African continent: A source of socio-economic hope
- Collaboration over competition
- Lessons learnt: Supporting early-stage ventures
- Partnering with social impact founders
- Towards a fearless social enterprise
- Impact of business accelerators in disadvantaged areas
- New venture propensity index
- Locus of control and the happy entrepreneur
- Self-empathy as it relates to entrepreneurship
- Executive coaching as an entrepreneurial venture
- Micro-entrepreneurs and their start-up teams
- Diversity and entrepreneurship
- Critical analysis of refugee entrepreneurial resilience
- The economic ecosystems of informality and the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) in Africa
- Collective intelligence and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Creating a regional bio-energy niche
- Restoring the agency of voice
About the editors
Prof Kurt April is the Endowed Chair and Director of the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership, specialising in Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town.
He is also an Orchestrator and Faculty member for Duke CE at Duke University, and Adjunct Faculty member of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Previously he was a Research Fellow at Ashridge-Hult Business School; Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University; Visiting Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Economics & Econometrics, University of Amsterdam.
Dr Badri Zolfaghari is currently a Lecturer in Strategy and International Business, and an Associate of the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, South Africa.
Her research interests lie within the field of organizational behaviour and entrepreneurship, with a focus on multi-level trust development across cultures, trust development in culturally diverse start-up teams, cultural diversity and integration, and the strategic management of culturally diverse workforces.
Her work has been published in numerous articles and book chapters in outlets such as European Management Journal and Field Guide to Intercultural Research.
- PUBLISHER | KR Publishing |
- Recommended Retail Price | R369.00 |
- Classification | Business Management |
