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State-business relations for entrepreneurial takeoff in Africa: institutional analysis
Hossain, F., Mamman, A., Yeboah-Assiamah, E., & Rees, C. J. (2023) · African Journal of Economic and Management Studies · doi:10.1108/ajems-10-2022-0402 · Cited by 10
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“Consequently, both academics and practitioners have become more interested in researching Africa’s distinctive business dynamics as a direct consequence of a slew of policy interventions (Barasa et al., 2017; Mamman et al., 2019; Obeng & Blundel, 2015).”
Executive environmental scanning and strategic uncertainty: the impact of institutional context
Sawyerr, O. O., & Ebrahimi, B. P. (2022) · International Studies of Management and Organization · doi:10.1080/00208825.2021.2023442 · Cited by 10
The influence of social class on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and outcome expectations
Adebusuyi, A. S., & Adebusuyi, O. F. (2020) · Small Enterprise Research · doi:10.1080/13215906.2020.1844044 · Cited by 12
Agbebi, M., Song, J., Mamman, A., & Baydoun, N. (2024) · Africa Journal of Management · doi:10.1080/23322373.2024.2375951 · Cited by 11
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Special Issue: Entrepreneurship and Africa’s cultural context
Mamman, A., Branine, M., Bawole, J., & Rees, C. J. (2024) · Africa Journal of Management · doi:10.1080/23322373.2024.2350861 · Cited by 7
“An important issue related to gaps in literature is that many policy interventions for entrepreneurship development fail to live up to expectations or deliver intended outcomes for various reasons (Mamman et al., 2019).”
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Mashingaidze, M., Bomani, M., & Derera, E. (2021) · Journal of Contemporary Management · doi:10.35683/jcm20103.114 · Cited by 11
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Firms’ access to finance, export trade channels and exports in Africa
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“In the past two decades, a number of countries have begun to establish an environment that is supportive of private sector expansion and saw SMEs as a vehicle for economic development and progress [48], African Government AfG) Report [5].”
Changing role of finance in rural small enterprise growth in Ghana
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A RICH resilience capability portfolio: Linking resiliency to strategic entrepreneurship behavior
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“Thus, this study is timely and valuable from the context of sub-Saharan Africa because further research on small businesses in sub-Saharan Africa is needed to support the enactment of policies directed toward the development of entrepreneurship (Mamman et al., 2019).”
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Evaluation of trade and production policy in Iranian SME (a system dynamics model)
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“(Mamman et al., 2019; RemerBollow et al., 2019).”
How Does Mobile Phone Ownership Support Rural Female Entrepreneurs in Uganda?
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“…emerging economies face numerous challenges, including resource constraints and knowledge gaps, particularly in accessing investment opportunities, staff shortages [8, 9], ineffective strategic planning [10], inadequate education and training [11], and a reluctance among owners to delegate control.”
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“The result of all of these efforts is to create more jobs for university graduates and increase the GDP of society (Mamman et al., 2019).”
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“Therefore, the results of this study confirmed that tax incentives related to ESG management activities positively affect a company ’ s financial performance, as suggested in previous studies by Ivus et al. [53], Mamman et al. [63].”
Public Health Policy and its Incidence on The Quality of Public Management in Chincha – Peru, 2021
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“The importance of SMEs is circumstantial for the understanding of the interactions between public policies, the business environment and their results (Bawole Justice 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mamman, A., Bawole, J., Agbebi, M., & Alhassan, A.-R.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- University of Ghana (GH)
- University of Tampere (FI)
- Coventry University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mamman, Aminu
- Venue
- Journal of Business Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-04
- Volume
- 97
- Pages
- 304-315
- ISSN
- 0148-2963 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2783300598
- Cited by
- 64
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 7.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Business Research (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Tampere University Institutional Repository (Tampere University) (acceptedVersion)
- BCU Open Access Repository (Birmingham City University) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Tampere University Institutional Repository (Tampere University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Industrial Development
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Local Economic Development and Planning
- Keywords
- SME policy, small and medium-sized enterprises, policy formulation, policy implementation, policy assumptions, conceptual framework, business environment, entrepreneurs, policy outcomes, economic growth, unemployment reduction, sub-Saharan Africa
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