Entrepreneurial Management Styles and Organisational Resilience in African SMEs: A Socio-Economic and Policy Perspective
<p>Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) play a central role in African economic development, creating over 90% of employment and contributing a vast majority of GDP in Africa. However, structural pitfalls – ranging from insecure institutional contexts and incoherent policies to inaccessibi...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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IntechOpen
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/1240155 |
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| Sumario: | <p>Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) play a central role in African economic development, creating over 90% of employment and contributing a vast majority of GDP in Africa. However, structural pitfalls – ranging from insecure institutional contexts and incoherent policies to inaccessibility of funding and brain drain – stand in the way of such businesses and deter them from becoming sustainable. In this light, this chapter focuses on how entrepreneurial management approaches build organisational resilience in African SMEs. Building on the theoretical underpinnings of transformational, participative, and adaptive leadership, the research examines how these managerial entrepreneurial styles foster organisational resilience in African SMEs. It also frames these processes in terms of global and regional socio-economic and policy settings, recognising that managerial modes of functioning are not culture-neutral but are instead historically, institutionally, and market-conditionally determined and unique to Africa. Drawing from comparative case data across South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, the paper introduces a conceptual framework in the form of the <i>Entrepreneurial Management-Resilience Linkage Model</i>—a conceptual model describing how leadership styles impact innovation, adaptability, and long-term sustainability. It concludes with actionable policy guidance on how to incorporate leadership and management capability development into the entrepreneurship strategies of countries. By bridging theory and practice, this chapter contributes knowledge on how entrepreneurial management holds the promise to transform African SMEs into sustainable, resilient, and innovative businesses capable of performing in the international economy.</p> |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-80631-511-6 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.1015295 |