In the entrepreneurship literature, a stakeholder is anybody who can affect or is affected by an organization, strategy or project. They can be internal or external and they can be at senior, middle or junior levels. Some definitions suggest that stakeholders are those who have the power to...

The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (SRISE) (2009) proposes a three-pronged definition of fragile states as the one that lacks authority (authority failure), fail to provide services (service entitlement failure) or lack legitimacy (legitimacy failure). While with...

Across the world, women are discriminated because of their gender. Gender inequality manifests itself particularly clearly in the lack of women’s access to and control over resources, including land, economic opportunities and full legal and political rights. While at the same time and in...

It is known that an important point in good governance is the responsiveness of policies and public institutions to the needs of all citizens. Therefore, policies and institutions must represent the interests of women and men and promote equal access to resources, rights, and voice. The question...

Business growth is a process of adaptation and development that occurs in the business cycle of an organisation, and is an increase in the size or scale of operations of a firm usually accompanied by increase in its resources and output. In addition, ‘growth strategy’ refers to a strategic...

The problem of poverty alleviation and unemployment remain the primary concerns of the government of the African National Congress (ANC) since 1994. This article aims to profile some official government initiatives to tackling unemployment among black peoples. The article posits a strategic...

In essence, the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurship series is an umbrella of annual reports that measures the United States entrepreneurship across national, state, and metro levels. Rather than focusing on inputs, the Kauffman Index focuses primarily on entrepreneurial outputs, the actual...

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is a worldwide coordinated data collection effort that provides insights on several individual attributes (perception of opportunities, perception of own capabilities to act entrepreneurially, fear of failure and entrepreneurial intentions), which,...

During the last half century, the economic performance of the developing world has been far from uniform. Developing countries were polarised into those that made great progress in catching up and those that were mired in stagnation. Many African countries belong to the second group. Therefore,...

During the last half century, the economic performance of the developing world has been far from uniform. Developing countries were polarised into those that made great progress in catching up and those that were mired in stagnation. Many African countries belong to the second group. Therefore,...