Abstract/Overview Sub-Saharan Africa in general and Kenya in particular, provide a challenging business environment. In this contribution the authors first present an overview of the economic, sociocultural and institutional hurdles for small-scale entrepreneurship. These challenges notwithstanding, there are some success stories that flourish. Many entrepreneurial initiatives explicitly try to learn from the current policy failures. The paper will in particular focus on the impact of man...
Abstract/Overview Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) are vital for the growth, especially for developing countries as they create jobs and distribute the national wealth among rural communities. It is believed that their development is mostly influenced by availability of financial services. Mogotio District has a number of micro financial institutions. It was not clear the extent to which they interacted with MSEs so as to support their growth especially in rural areas of Mogotio. This s...
The purpose of study is the assessment of global COVID-19 on small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) with the case of Technological Incubation Centre (TIC), Ibadan. Three research objectives were raised. A descriptive survey research design was used. The population of the study is 29. Total census survey was adopted as the sampling technique. SPSS software 25 analysis was used toanalyze the data. The study concluded that there has been an increase in all the inputs needed for the production...
The purpose of the study was to analyze the learning method of social entrepreneurship adopted through a movie Padman. Numerous stakeholders such as family, community, social activists, entrepreneurs and policy makers were the target audience. The movie narrated the story a poor family residing in rural area and presented their social, cultural and financial problems where a social constraint was a cause of health risk to women. The problem was social in nature. It was converted in an opportu...
Rice Farm is a growing business that is based in Nigeria which is involved in the cultivation and production of rice to the Nigerian populace in ensuring food security and reducing hunger in the country. We have in possession a secure and suitable hectare of farmland to start our commercial cultivation and production of rice. Since, we want to compete with the best industry in the country, aside from securing farmland, we are planning to purchase farming equipment and machines to enhance prod...
Abstract Social enterprises (SE), firms with mission to enhance the social wealth and the common good are increasingly becoming significant to the socio-economic development of nations. Like conventional small and medium business enterprises, a number of social enterprises aspire to play active role across national borders and having serious constraints to scale through. Though both forms of enterprises participate in global business environment, issues that confront SEs and their internation...