Development Institutions and Small-Scale Enterprises in Ghana

Arthur, Peter

doi:10.1080/02589000701662418

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“…This is largely because the data impose constraints on the conceptual specification of family entrepreneurial behaviour or capture these other facets. However, this does not derail the argumentation in this study as this approach is consistent with other studies utilising secondary data to understand entrepreneurial behaviour (Arthur, 2007;Kinghan and Newman, 2015). Families with enterprises are considered entrepreneurial and coded as 1 and those without are considered non-entrepreneurial and are coded as 0.…”

Section: Operationalization Of Variablessupporting

confidence: 83%

Microfinance, gender and entrepreneurial behaviour of families in Ghana

Acheampong

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between microfinance participation and entrepreneurial behaviour of Ghanaian families as well as the moderating role of the family head’s gender. It is argued from a resource-based theory perspective that microfinance is a financial resource that removes credit constraints to entrepreneurial behaviour of families. However, gender of the family head creates heterogeneity in this relationship in line with the gender theory. Design/methodology/approach In order to test these claims, cross-sectional data from 2,727 families on microfinance participation and household characteristics in Ghana are utilised. Findings The study finds that microfinance participation has a positive and significant relationship with a family’s decision to own an enterprise. Also, the study finds that female-headed families are better utilizers of microfinancial resources for entrepreneurial purposes compared to their male counterparts. This difference is a pure gender effect. Originality/value This finding is in contrast to the dominant stream of gender-based entrepreneurship research that suggests that women are subordinate to men and need to be helped to become “honorary men”. From a policy standpoint, solutions aimed at reversing discrimination against women in economic markets must consider women within their own right. The study makes a contribution to the literature by showing empirically the source of heterogeneity in entrepreneurial returns to microfinance participation by families.

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Section: Operationalization Of Variablessupporting

confidence: 83%

Microfinance, gender and entrepreneurial behaviour of families in Ghana

Acheampong

2018

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“…Related to above is the issues of occupational culture (or professional culture), which refers to the shared norms, values and beliefs associated with a particular occupation (Heery and Noon 2001;Sirmon and Lane 2004). Entrepreneurship as a profession faces a number obstacles such as crippling government policies and control under dictatorship, which often hamper formation of new businesses and functioning of existing ones (see Arthur 2005Arthur 2007Handley 2008). Indeed, as it has long been recognised "societies differ in the value they attach to entrepreneurship as a profession as well as the protection they give discoveries-be it in the form of products, processes, organizations or business models" (Zahra, Korri and Yu 2005, p. 138).…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Development National Culture Entrepreneurimentioning

confidence: 99%

“… From 1963 to 1966, the Government provided £2.7 million in loans to timber producers. Sources: synthesised from: Abor and Biekpe, 2006;Amankwah-Amoah, 2016b;2016b;Arthur, 2002Arthur, , 2005Arthur, , 2006Arthur, , 2007Arthur, , 2010Ayee, Lofchie andWieland, 1999;Bob-Milliar, 2009;Danquah & Amankwah-Amoah, 2017;Esseks, 1971a;Goldsworthy, 1973;Howe, 1958;MEST, 2010;Obeng and Blundel, 2015;Robson et al, 2009;UNCTAD, 2011aUNCTAD, , 2011bGNDPC, 1995GNDPC, , 1997.…”

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confidence: 99%

Historical evolution of entrepreneurial development in the global South: The case of Ghana, 1957–2010

Amankwah‐Amoah

2018

Science and Public Policy

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In spite of growing awareness among strategy, business history and entrepreneurship scholars of the benefits of entrepreneurial development, our understanding of the evolution of entrepreneurial development in developing nations remains limited. A historical analysis of the issue in postcolonial Ghana from 1957 to 2010 led to the identification of three distinctive phases. The first phase represented the immediate post-colonial reforms (1957-1966), where large-scale nationalisation and establishment of state-owned enterprises hampered development of private enterprises. The second phase was the turbulent period (1967-1979), where totalitarianism and confiscation of assets deterred private investments and ownership, thereby creating a harsh economic and institutional environment. These culminated in the last phase, the renaissance of social entrepreneurship (1980-2010) where different entrepreneurial models flourished, including the diaspora philanthropy and the "philanthropic chief".

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“…In fact, as the opportunities open to smiths increase in Tamale, the hereditary qualification is no longer required. RURAL-URBAN: TAMALE, 1907-2007 In 2004, Tamale became a metropolitan district, only the third such in the country, in recognition of its increasing size and importance. Its status as a 'city', however, can be misleading.…”

Section: Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…John Powell described many of the successes of this project, but also the failures attributable to some combination of economic policy, dumping of shoddy manufactures from abroad, corruption and official incompetence (Powell 1995;Arthur 2007). Since then the optimism he expresses has been betrayed by the resilience, in Ghana as in much of Africa, of an economy of pervasive disjunctures which is resistant to the formal regularity that 'development' requires, which is subject to unanticipated shocks, and in which no condition can be counted on for stability (Guyer 2004: 155-64); improvisation rules.…”

Section: Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%