Africa is on the rise. Enabled by natural resources, commodity trading and the recent discovery of Africa as the last frontier of capitalism by the global market, African entrepreneurs are now being empowered as economic change agents. How can this new economic elite engage in the sustainable...

Introduction -- Africapitalism : a management idea for business in Africa? -- Business elites to the rescue! Reframing capitalism and constructing an expert identity : implications for Africapitalism -- Africapitalism and corporate governance -- Rethinking human capital development in Africa :...

This paper examines Japan's response to ‘external pressure', mainly from Europe and the US, focussing on the ‘mercantile response' by merchants and financiers. Before the beginning of free trade in 1859, many money exchange merchants in Osaka transacted with merchants and wealthy farmers...

The attempt of this paper is to find an empirical relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and New Firms (Paid up Capital) and Gross Capital Formation (proxy for business growth) and Credit to Commercial Sector and Gross Capital Formation using the test of stationarity (ADF, PP, and KPSS...

Um Informationen über den Internationalisierungsstand der sächsischenWirtschaft zu gewinnen, führte das Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonnvon Oktober 2000 bis Juni 2001 im Auftrag des Sächsischen Ministeriumsfür Wirtschaft und Arbeit in Kooperation mit der TU Bergakademie Freibergeine...