This book focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and SME management on the African continent by providing insights from different conceptual, empirical and case studies. In doing so, it focuses on context-specific challenges for conducting entrepreneurial activities or business endeavors...

Intro -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 The 2015 Conference on Recent Trends in Economic Development, Finance and Management Research in Eastern Africa -- 1.2 The Chapters -- 1.2.1 Section I: Context -- 1.2.2 Section II: Challenges -- 1.2.3 Section III:...

Contents: 1. Contextualizing entrepreneurship in-between emerging economies and developing countries / Marcela Ramírez-Pasillas, Ethel Brundin and Magdalena Markowska -- Part I: Contextualizing the top-down driving forces for entrepreneurial practices -- 2. The political economy of indigenous...