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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
business, management and accounting
Informal family business in Africa
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Volume 33, No. 6, Year 2009
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Description
Employing grounded theory based on comparative case studies of informal microfinanced businesses in East Africa, we build a theoretical foundation for studying the establishment and evolution of family firms in emerging markets. We show that East African entrepreneurs not only use both strong family and strong community ties to establish and grow businesses, but they also use strong community ties to counterbalance the obligations that strong extended family ties create. In addition, we show that economic informality presents opportunities for some entrepreneurial businesses but not others to cycle rapidly from opportunity to opportunity as they maneuver toward higher value-creating ventures. © 2009 Baylor University.
Authors & Co-Authors
Khavul, Susanna
United States, Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington
Bruton, Garry D.
United States, Fort Worth
Texas Christian University
Wood, Eric A.S.
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Statistics
Citations: 313
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1540-6520.2009.00342.x
ISSN:
10422587
Study Design
Grounded Theory
Study Approach
Qualitative
Study Locations
Multi-countries