West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-79597-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on African Economics

More African women than men become entrepreneurs, with women often balancing time caring for their households with small enterprises such as setting up shops in front of their homes, renting market stalls, or setting up hairstyling businesses.

This book considers these micro-level instances of entrepreneurship, as well as cases of more established high-status entrepreneurs, to build a picture of women entrepreneurs in West African societies, and their wider role in socio-economic development. Small and medium enterprises are seen as agents of change in the global south, vital for job creation and poverty reduction, but women often face barriers which hinder their entrepreneurial success, such as lack of funding, useful networks, or inhibitive gender stereotypes. This book highlights cases of gender and economic success, to demonstrate the significant potential of the female economy to generate progress and change.

This book will be an important read for students and researchers of entrepreneurship, business, gender, development, and economic sociology in Africa.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schuerkens, Ulrike

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

List of Figures

About the Editor

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Introduction: West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World

0 Introduction

1 West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World

Ulrike Schuerkens

2 Wealth Making in Marriage: Simbiat Abiola of Southwestern Nigeria, 1938-1992

Mutiat Titilope Oladejo

Part 2: Processes Linked to the Creation of Women Enterprises

3 Women's Home-Based Entrepreneurship in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Partnership Governance and Succession Planning

Haoua Badini Koné

4 Women’s “Invisible” Path to Empowerment in Cameroon: The Case of Digital Companies

Estelle Salla Bezanga

5 Analysis of the Motivations and Constraints of Pre-Existing Women's Groups in the Process of Creating a Collective Enterprise: The Case of the Creation of a Cooperative by a Women's Group in the West Region of Cameroon

Lolita Toche and Etienne St-Jean

6 The Auchan Brand in Senegal: A Source of Supply for Women Stallholders in Mbour – A Link to Working-Class Consumers

Paul Mamba Diedhiou

Part 3: Women Entrepreneurs and their Enterprises

7 Women Entrepreneurs in Senegal and the Wider Geographical Context of Africa and Europe

Ulrike Schuerkens

8 New Figures in Women's Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa:

Dakar Women Entrepreneurs Between the Global and the Local in Digitalisation

Abdul-Aziz Dembélé

9 Relational Biographies of Women Social Entrepreneurs in Senegal

Sadio Ba Gning

10 Social Entrepreneurship in Dakar: Reasons for the Disaffiliation of Members of the Association of Women Seamstresses of the Marché Colobane (A.F.C.)

Aboubacar Diallo and Paul Mamba Diédhiou

Part 4: Women Entrepreneurs and New Challenges

11 Participatory Financing in Senegal and its Role in Financing Female Entrepreneurship:

An Empirical Case Study

Mamadou Ndione, Marie-José Scotto, and Hicham Sbai

12 Factors in the Success and Failure of Public Policies to Promote Female Entrepreneurship in Cameroon

Brigitte Audrey Ekodo Bekono

13 Women Entrepreneurs in Côte d'Ivoire's Philanthropic Landscape

Jean-Claude Kouadio

14 Business Sustainability Adoption by Ghanaian Women Entrepreneurs

Philomena Asante, Kathy-Ann Fletcher, and Sharon L. Forbes

Part 5: Concluding Remarks and Perspectives

15 Concluding Remarks and Perspectives

Ulrike Schuerkens

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ulrike Schuerkens studied at the Universities of Cologne (Germany) and Rennes (France). She has doctorates in both sociology, and social anthropology and ethnology, from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She received the diploma Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the University Paris V – René Descartes. Currently, she is a professor of sociology at the University Rennes 2, France. She taught in the master’s and PhD programmes of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. She also taught as a lecturer at the University Lille 3 (France) and Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany). She was a visiting professor at the Universities Paris 1 and Paris V, the University of Cologne (Germany), Rouen Business School, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal), and others. Ulrike Schuerkens has served for many years in different functions as a member of the board of the Research Committee on Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, RC 09 of the International Sociological Association. She is on the editorial board of several international journals. She has published extensively on globalisation, glocalisation, socio-economic development, social change, transnational migrations, multiculturalism, and colonialism. Her latest monographs are Entreprises, entrepreneurs et travail au Sénégal, Pour une sociologie du management en Afrique et dans le monde arabe, Social Changes in a Global World, Soziale Transformationen und Entwicklung(en) in einer globalisierten Welt, Global Management, Local Resistances (ed., Routledge, 2014), The Socio-economic Outcomes of the Global Financial Crisis (ed., Routledge, 2012), Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality (ed., Routledge, 2010), Globalization and Transformations of Local Socio-Economic Practices (ed., Routledge, 2008), Transnational Migrations and Social Transformations, Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations, Changement social sous régime colonial: Du Togo allemand aux Togo et Ghana indépendants, Transformationsprozesse in der Elfenbeinkueste und in Ghana.