This book focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and SME management on the African continent by providing insights from different conceptual, empirical and case studies. In doing so, it focuses on context-specific challenges for conducting entrepreneurial activities or business endeavors...

The purpose of this study is to better understand whether emotional aspects affect entrepreneurs’ and owner-managers’ decisions in investment situations when escalation of commitment can be observed and where the level of uncertainty was also added to the emotional aspect. The study was...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate entrepreneurs’ investment decisions under uncertainty in continued investments where the authors test the role of emotions to continue or discontinue the investment. Design/methodology/approach – A conjoint analysis is carried out on...

Intro -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 The 2015 Conference on Recent Trends in Economic Development, Finance and Management Research in Eastern Africa -- 1.2 The Chapters -- 1.2.1 Section I: Context -- 1.2.2 Section II: Challenges -- 1.2.3 Section III:...