Sub-Saharan Africa

Episode 156 – Afua Owusu-Kwarteng – Damsels in distress or the queens of change? Exploring the sustainable development contributions of women entrepreneurs in poverty contexts

Episode 156
 00:12:57

As businesses become crucial to tackling the environmental, social, and economic challenges plaguing the world, there is still a lack of understanding about the specific role of entrepreneurs in poverty contexts to the sustainable development agenda. This paper addresses a central concern for entrepreneurship scholars and sustainable development advocates by revealing how women entrepreneurs are…

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Episode 154 – Mikael Samuelsson – From deficit narratives to ambidextrous embeddedness: how high-tech ventures navigate and transform hyperdynamic contexts in sub-Saharan Africa

Episode 154
 00:12:30

Entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa is often portrayed through a deficit lens, emphasizing constraints such as financial limitations and weak institutions. While recent studies emphasize the potential of high-tech ventures in such settings, we still lack process-based accounts of how these ventures navigate these environments, particularly how their embeddedness unfold over time and how social, spatial…

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Episode 112 – Margot Leger – The role and effectiveness of non-formal training programmes for entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic literature review

Episode 112

ntrepreneurship is growing in popularity as a tool to combat the challenges of unemployment and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. A host of training programme offerings have emerged to mitigate the challenges of starting and sustaining a business in this context. Non-formal trainings (educational activities outside formal places of learning such as universities or schools)…

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