Which firms drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya

Esaku, Stephen

doi:10.1007/s11187-021-00536-y

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“…The mean scores of numbers of employees between SMEs operating under JV and sole proprietorships are the same Malaysia has been implementing strategic JVs and partnerships between its local firms, Australian and Singaporean firms since the 1990s. 31 As a result of JVs, over 75% of Malaysian SMEs have experienced significant growth in market shares and working capital. Moreover, local SMEs have diversified their operations to export due to reliable markets and trade opportunities in partnering countries.…”

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Joint Ventures for SMEs Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth: A Comparative Analysis of SMEs in Mbeya, Tanzania

Israel

2022

EHASS

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The inclusive growth of SMEs has recently gained much recognition from scholars and policymakers. However, the pertinent question is, what is the best approach toward SME growth? This article examines the effects of Joint Venture (JV) undertaking on SMEs’ competitiveness and inclusive growth in Tanzania’s business setting. 192 (87 JV firms and 105 sole proprietors) were sampled from Mbeya City, Tanzania using a stratified systematic sampling technique for analysis. Data was collected using the survey method. The effects of JV on the SMEs’ competitiveness and growth were established by the pattern of percentages and the level of significance (p-values) using the independent t-test. It was found that SMEs operating as JV were more competitive, with a higher ability to meet financial, cost, quality, innovation, time and market requirements compared to sole proprietors. Nevertheless, JV firms revealed higher significant growth indicators in terms of sales volume, profit margin, market share, number of employees, working assets, production volume and business diversification than sole proprietors. Limited financial resources, inadequate production facilities, limited experience, unfavourable trade laws and socio-cultural factors constrain SMEs from JV undertaking. To policymakers and scholars, this article highlights the role and the determinants of JV undertakings as an important approach toward improved SMEs’ competitiveness and inclusive growth. Keywords: Joint ventures, SMEs’ competitiveness, inclusive growth, Mbeya-Tanzania

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Joint Ventures for SMEs Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth: A Comparative Analysis of SMEs in Mbeya, Tanzania

Israel

2022

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Job creation or disruption? Unraveling the effects of smart city construction on corporate employment in China

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Liu

et al. 2023

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Institutionalized democracy and the shadow economy in the short- and long-run: empirical analysis from Uganda

Esaku

2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This paper investigates the relationship between institutionalized democracy and the shadow economy in both the long- and short-run. Using time series data from Uganda that cover the period from 1991 to 2015, this paper applies autoregressive distributed lag method to investigate this relationship. How democracy affects the shadow economy in less developed countries like Uganda is not well understood. This paper aims to fill the above knowledge gap. The findings show that the shadow economy and institutionalized democracy are negatively correlated in both the short- and long-run. This implies that improvement in institutionalized democracy significantly hinders the rise of shadow activities. This indicates that institutions regulate the conduct of economic agents and determine how entrepreneurs engage in economic activities. Moreover, institutions are crucial in resource allocation which in turn leads to welfare improvement. Improvement in welfare of citizens reduces their incentive to engage in informal sector activities since the formal sector provides the necessary support needed to operate legally. These findings are robust to alternative econometric methods. Two practical implications of these findings stand out. First, these findings indicate that reforming the governance system to facilitate efficient resource allocation could be one way of addressing widespread informality in developing economies. Second, these results also indicate that minimizing informality in the economy should gradually move away from emphasis on tackling proximate causes of informality to democratic reforms that change the authority patterns. In this case institutionalized democracy is another important channel of mitigating the rise of the shadow economy.

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Which firms drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Joint Ventures for SMEs Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth: A Comparative Analysis of SMEs in Mbeya, Tanzania

Joint Ventures for SMEs Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth: A Comparative Analysis of SMEs in Mbeya, Tanzania

Job creation or disruption? Unraveling the effects of smart city construction on corporate employment in China

Institutionalized democracy and the shadow economy in the short- and long-run: empirical analysis from Uganda

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