How can micro and small enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa become more productive? the impacts of experimental basic managerial training
By Yukichi Mano, Alhassan Iddrisu, Yutaka Yoshino, Tetsushi Sonobe. 2011
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The vast majority of micro and small enterprises in developing countries are located in industrial clusters, and the majority of such clusters have yet to see their growth take off. The performance of micro and small enterprise clusters is especially low in Sub-Saharan Africa. While existing studies often attribute the poor performance to factors outside firms, problems within firms are seldom scrutinized. Entrepreneurs in these clusters are unfamiliar with standard business practices. Based on a randomized experiment in Ghana, this study demonstrates that basic-level management training improves business practices and performance, although the extent of improvement varies considerably among entrepreneurs.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation
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Citations in the corpus
- The Creation and Diffusion of Innovation in Developing Countries : A Systematic Literature Review (2016, unknown): “Mano et al. (2012) ran a randomized experiment in Ghana where 167 metalworkers received a three weeks training program.”
- Financial Literacy Around the World: An Overview of the Evidence with Practical Suggestions for the Way Forward (2012, unknown): “Mano et al. (2009) focuses on another metalworking cluster in Nairobi, Kenya, although they do not randomize participation in the training, and the sample size is also fairly small (60 entrepreneurs).”
- Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis (2013, unknown): “…and Schündeln (2007) (Potentia l) Business owners G&N Lower middle income LAC 2005 Business training and monetary prize Business expansion: + Mano et al. (2011) Microent erprise owners Ghana Lower middle income Africa 2008 13 Business training Profit, practice, revenue: + Macours et al.…”
- Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland (2014, unknown): “Utilizing a randomized experiment, Mano et al. (2012) found that basic-level management training improves business practices and performance in Ghana.”
- Innovation and productivity in formal and informal firms in Ghana (2017, unknown): “Since then, management and managerial skills have received increased attention as a factor explaining differences in firms’ performance in developing countries with evidence spanning various geographical areas (Bloom et al., 2013; Drexler et al., 2014; Karlan and Valdivia, 2011; Mano et al., 2012).”
- Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programs around the World: Dimensions for Success (2014, unknown): “These mixed findings align with McKenzie and Woodruff (2012), who find only relatively modest impacts of training on survivorship among existing firms.”
- Returns to microcredit, cash grants and training for male and female microentrepreneurs in Uganda (2018, background): “For instance, Bloom, Eifert, Mahajan, McKenzie, and Roberts (2013) find large returns for Indian textile firms when given management services.”
- Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in Africa (2015, background): “The majority of the invited participants attended the training sessions, and many adopted the management practices taught in the programme (Mano et al. 2011; Sonobe et al. 2011).”