Entrepreneurial motivations, in terms of necessity and opportunity, are key for small businesses and are studied extensively from a static perspective, especially in economically developed contexts. However, previous research has largely overlooked the dynamics of entrepreneurial motivations. We...

Foreword -- 1. Putting the Tropics on the academic map: The Raison d’être of the SEIGOP Conference (Manisha Agarwal, Thomas Chong, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Janice Lim, Maxwell Low, Malobi Mukherjee, Erica Nee, May Tan-Mullins, Jacob Wood) -- 2. Seeking a sustainable technology of governance to...

The objective of this study is to explore entrepreneurial motivation in a least developed country (LDC), which can be divided into push factors and pull factors, without a priori separation between those which are necessity-driven and those which are opportunity-driven. This study shows that the...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of decision-making, in terms of the effectuation and causation orientation of small business owners, on the growth of their small businesses in an uncertain environment: Burundi. Design/methodology/approach On the basis of primary data from a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of entrepreneurial motivation and entrepreneurial orientation in Tanzania’s informal economy. The development of personal wealth is used to measure the performance of subsistence entrepreneurs in the mama lishe sector....

Purpose This study aims to advance the scholarship of yachting in the context of wellness by exploring the following research question: in what ways is wellness created and experienced by luxury yachting? Design/methodology/approach Since the extant journal literature from 2012–2023 in...

Entrepreneurs' creative responses to institutional challenges in sub-Saharan Africa examines institutional constraints and enablers of Tanzanian and Zambian entrepreneurs in sustainability practices. Exploring how entrepreneurs contribute to societal and environmental well-being despite the...

Part 1: The heart of the matter: Identity, motivation and inclusiveness -- Chapter 1: Indigenous entrepreneurship and identity An exploratory study of entrepreneurs in the Namibian sandbox -- Chapter 2: Entrepreneurial motivation among small-scale business entrepreneurs A case study of Tanzania...