African Women in the Entrepreneurial Landscape: Reconsidering the Formal and Informal Sectors

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Struggling with social capital: Pakistani women micro entrepreneurs’ challenges in acquiring resources (2017, background): “…networking behaviour among men and women results in variations in strong and weak ties, resulting in differences in business performance as women, due to their preference for strong ties and limited ability to form weak ties, are excluded from more rewarding business networks (Spring 2009).”
Informal microfinance institutions and development-led tourism entrepreneurship (2016, background): “Given that many owners of STFs in Sub-Saharan Africa are members of IMFIs (Kimbu, 2010), the role of IMFIs can be crucial in supporting development-led tourism entrepreneurship.”
Female entrepreneurship in Africa: A review, trends, and future research directions (2021, background): “These sectors’ strategies tend to be characterised by a relative ease of entry due to low requirements for start-up capital and human capital (Adesua-Lincoln, 2011; Akinbami & Aransiola, 2016; Ama et al., 2014; Awusabo-Asare & Tanle, 2008; Isaga, 2019; Otoo et al., 2012; Spring, 2009).”