Family – Owned Businesses in Africa

The role of family-owned businesses (FOBs) and enterprises in African economic and social development can not be over-emphasized. So far there is limited research and documentation related to this phenomenon. This volume brings together research papers that seek to understand how in the African context family-owned businesses are developed and managed, and what forces are there that are inimical to or supportive of this category of enterprises. Among other things, the volume studies the following topics: • The definition of Family–Owned Business in the African context; • Entrepreneurial factors and entrepreneurial development policy in Africa; • Social capital and its entrepreneurial values in the development of FOBs; • The role of women in FOBs; • Ethical considerations in FOBs; • Copreneurship in Nigeria’s FOBs; • Cultures, poverty alleviation and small businesses; • Industrial relations in small scale FOBs; and • Entrepreneurship education and business success. The research studies were conducted by academics well-versed in the subject of entrepreneurship, and working in various universities in and outside Africa.