Understanding entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid in developing countries : insights from small-scale vegetable farmers in Benin

Yessoufou, Ahoudou W.

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“…So far, the farmers' EO literature has focused on its impact on absorptive capacity (Gellynck et al, 2015) and farm business performance (Matsuno et al, 2002;Verhees et al, 2011), yet without addressing the relationship with the product, process and market innovation. Furthermore, only a few studies so far assessed farmers' EO in the rural context of developing countries (Gellynck et al, 2015;Etriya et al, 2018) and, at the best of our knowledge, only one (Yessoufou, 2017) did so in the sub-Saharan African context.…”

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How entrepreneurial orientation drives farmers' innovation differential in Ugandan coffee multi-stakeholder platforms

Iza

Dentoni

2020

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PurposeThis study explores the role of the key dimensions of farmers' entrepreneurial orientation – namely proactiveness, risk-taking, innovativeness and intentions – as drivers of product, process and market innovation in the context of one coffee MSP in Uganda.Design/methodology/approachEmpirical data from 152 coffee farmers were analyzed via confirmatory factor analysis and partial least square multi-variate statistics.FindingsFindings highlight, first, that farmers' proactiveness significantly drives their product innovation and, to a lesser extent, process innovation. This effect holds when considering key control variables, such as access to key resources and associated actors. Second, more surprisingly, farmers' innovativeness hampers market innovation. Third, entrepreneurial intentions per se did not play a significant role in farmers' innovation. Fourth, the adapted measurement of risk-taking from the Western literature did not suit well the Ugandan coffee farming context.Research limitations/implicationsThese results lead to methodological implications for the measurement of farmers' risk-taking, innovative and proactive attitudes, as well as market innovation in rural Africa. Furthermore, they expand the role farmers' entrepreneurial orientation on product, process and market innovation in a rural African context.Originality/valueMulti-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) are often claimed to play an important role in stimulating farmers' innovation and enhancing rural development. Nevertheless, little is known yet on if why some farmers participating in MSPs may innovate more than others. This paper addresses this gap by shedding light on the role of farmers' entrepreneurial orientation.

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How entrepreneurial orientation drives farmers' innovation differential in Ugandan coffee multi-stakeholder platforms

Iza

Dentoni

2020

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“…The first methodological implication involves the measurement of farmers' EO, and specifically risk-taking, in the context of rural Uganda. Relative to the measurements of farmers' EO in other international contexts (Matsuno et al, 2002;Verhees et al, 2011)-including Indonesia (Etriya Etriya et al, 2018), Ivory Coast (Yessoufou, 2017) Third and last, this study reveals the importance of accessing resources (such as labor) and networks relative to farmers' EO. Importantly, we found that farmers' access to networks represents by far the strongest driver of product and market innovation.…”

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“…Accordingly, recent studies have adapted the measurement of individual-level EO to the contexts of rural Philippines , Indonesia (Etriya Etriya et al, 2018), Ivory Coast (Yessoufou, 2017), and…”

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“…At the farmer level, entrepreneurial orientation has been measured in three dimensions, namely innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness (Matsuno et al, 2002;Verhees et al, 2011). Furthermore, the concept of farmers' EO has recently been related to agricultural innovation in other contexts in emerging economies Etriya et al 2018;Yessoufou, 2017). This thesis has Finally, the qualitative study using an inductive approach (Chapter 4) mobilizes the concept of value network embeddedness (Allee 2009) which, in the context of this thesis, is underpinned by resource dependence theory (Pfeffer and Salancik 1978;.…”

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“…So far, the literature on farmers' EO has focused on its impact on absorptive capacity (Gellynck et al, 2015) and farm business performance (Matsuno et al, 2002;Verhees et al, 2011), but hasn't yet addressed its relationship with product, process, and market innovation. Furthermore, only a few studies so far have assessed farmers' EO in the rural context of developing countries (Etriya Etriya et al, 2018;Gellynck et al, 2015) and, to the best of our knowledge, only one (Yessoufou, 2017) has done so in the Sub-Saharan African context.…”

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Understanding entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid in developing countries : insights from small-scale vegetable farmers in Benin

Cited by 3 publications

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How entrepreneurial orientation drives farmers' innovation differential in Ugandan coffee multi-stakeholder platforms

How entrepreneurial orientation drives farmers' innovation differential in Ugandan coffee multi-stakeholder platforms

The influence of multi-stakeholder platforms on farmer innovation and rural development in emerging economies : Examples from Uganda

Reconceptualising responsible research and innovation from a Global South perspective

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