The goal of this chapter is to examine the wider range of roles Africans played in the making of colonial legal and political orders. We recognize that Africans were employed in a wide range of service roles, including menial workers and skilled artisans, but our focus will be on those Africans...

This paper investigates whether new venture performance becomes easier to predict as the venture ages: does the fog lift? To address this question we primarily draw upon a theoretical framework, initially formulated in a managerial context by Levinthal (1991) that sees new venture sales as a...