La Covid-19 : une opportunité d’affaires pour le secteur informel en Afrique ?

Abaté, André Modeste

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“…This paradoxical result can be explained by to the fact that Corruption, basic services and IPUs performance in Cameroon, the management of IPUs does not require a specific technical training. In fact, trade is the main activity of IPUs, and people having followed a professional training can be less motivated to join this sector (Abate, 2021;Bakehe, 2016). Also, it is possible that the people having followed a professional training and who resort to self-employment do it because of their need, having been excluded from the job market (this can have a nonsignificant effect on the management and the organisational structure).…”

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Corruption, basic services and entrepreneurial venture performance: The case of informal production units in Cameroon

Modeste

Bakehe

2023

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PurposeThis paper aims to examine the relationship between the payment of bribes, the access to electricity and the productivity of informal production units (IPUs).Design/methodology/approachThe data used for this study come from the second Survey on Employment and Informal Sector conducted in 2010 by the National Institute of Statistics of Cameroon and representative at the national level. The survey was conducted among 3,560 IPUs. Survey participants reported whether they had been personally affected by corruption in the twelve months preceding the survey. Relying on the data of this survey, the recursive trivariate probit model was used to study the correlation between corruption and access to electricity.FindingsThe results reveal that the payment of bribes positively influences IPU access to electricity, and consequently access to this infrastructure has a positive impact on company performance.Research limitations/implicationsA main limitation of this paper is the environment of study in which corruption appeared to be institutionalised. It would therefore be interesting to extend the results obtained by conducting research in other countries and also including other infrastructures such as telecommunications.Practical implicationsThe main contribution of this research is to highlight the effectiveness of the fight against corruption and its impact on the access of some basics resources that affect the performance of certain companies. Indeed, the fight against corruption would be easier if economic actors had access to certain resources and fundamental infrastructures for their activities. Thus, improving the supply of resources and infrastructures can be an important lever in the fight against corruption in Africa.Originality/valueThis research addresses a vulnerable sector vis-à-vis the pressure of the actors involved in the provision of a service essential to the activity of companies. It highlights the justification for accepting the use of corruption. Indeed, entrepreneurs are faced with a dilemma between moral standards on the one hand, and economic imperatives on the other. If corruption is a condition of access to electricity which, in turn, improves performance, it is easy to pay bribes to gain access to electricity.

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Corruption, basic services and entrepreneurial venture performance: The case of informal production units in Cameroon

Modeste

Bakehe

2023

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Where is the journal at and where it is going after thirty-five years of publication: a forward-looking vision

Julien

Marchesnay

2022

Revue internationale P.M.E.

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À l’occasion de son 35e anniversaire, les rédactrices de la Revue internationale PME nous ont demandé, en tant que fondateurs de cette dernière, de faire le point sur son parcours et son futur. Nous revenons, d’une part, sur son rôle dans le développement de la discipline touchant ce thème de recherche et, d’autre part, sur son évolution prévisible dans les prochaines années. Cet exercice nous permet d’insister à nouveau sur l’importance d’un tel thème non seulement à cause du nombre très imposant de ces entreprises dans toutes les économies, mais à cause de leur impact de plus en plus reconnu sur leur développement. Dans cet article, nous résumons les choix des thèmes retenus par les chercheurs dans les premières années de la revue. Par la suite, nous nous arrêtons aux thèmes qui ont été élargis dans la décennie suivante, marquant en particulier la spécificité et la complexité du sujet. Pour après faire quelques projections sur ce qui s’en vient possiblement dans ce monde des PME. Enfin, nous nous arrêtons à l’importance scientifique du français justement pour l’enrichissement de cette science comme pour toute autre science.

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La Covid-19 : une opportunité d’affaires pour le secteur informel en Afrique ?

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Corruption, basic services and entrepreneurial venture performance: The case of informal production units in Cameroon

Corruption, basic services and entrepreneurial venture performance: The case of informal production units in Cameroon

Where is the journal at and where it is going after thirty-five years of publication: a forward-looking vision

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