Purpose – This paper aims to highlight the imperatives for sustainability marketing (SM) adoption in the emerging markets (EMs), identifies challenges that are encumbering them from adopting SM orientation, and proposes research agenda for better understanding of the construct in the EMs....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that constrain women petty traders' access to microcredit, and the innovative measures they have initiated in order to counter these constraints. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on in‐depth interviews with women...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the factors that are responsible for the poor credit recovery among micro‐finance institutions (MFIs) that disbursed a United Nations Development Programme's micro credit in Anambra State, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 97 MFIs were...

Public sector bureaucracies in Africa play important roles in the management of socio‐economic development and change. These tasks impose a number of imperatives on these institutions: they must be effective, efficient, transparent, and results‐oriented. In recent times, public bureaucracies...

The role of entrepreneurship in economic development is increasingly recognized by policymakers and researchers. Entrepreneurship has been advanced as the panacea for youth unemployment and wealth creation. However, studies on the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions have been...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and ranks factors that influence bank selection by undergrads in South East Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – Totally, 300 undergrads were sampled from two universities. Five-point Likert-type question containing 49 bank selection items...