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Stakeholder Management and Entrepreneurship in Africa:An Introduction
No full textAfrica, a continent of rich cultural diversity and untapped economic potential, stands at the crossroads of entrepreneurship and innovation. With its youthful population, emerging markets and growing middle class, Africa presents a unique landscape for entrepreneurial endeavors. From local startups addressing pressing social challenges to tech-driven enterprises with global ambitions, the entrepreneurial spirit in Africa is thriving. In this evolving ecosystem, effective stakeholder management is paramount. Entrepreneurs in Africa must navigate complex regulatory environments, engage with a diverse array of stakeholders and harness the continent’s vast opportunities.</p
Stakeholder Management in the Wake of Business Failure
No full textThis chapter examines the impact of business failure on stakeholder management relationships in future ventures. Stakeholder relationships and their importance to business are a critical concept in modern business theory. Stakeholders encompass a wide range of entities that can influence or be influenced by an organization. This inclusive definition challenges traditional economic assumptions by highlighting an organization’s responsibilities to various groups. Understanding stakeholder relationships is crucial for businesses, especially concerning the impact of business failure. Business failure can affect interactions with stakeholders and lead to stigma, but it may also offer valuable opportunities for learning and growth. This chapter suggests that entrepreneurs who effectively manage stakeholder relationships and learn from failure can ultimately benefit from business failure and experience positive effects in future ventures. The key implications include enhancing stakeholder awareness, managing stakeholder perceptions, embracing the grief recovery theory, prioritizing stakeholder relationships, and fostering mutual communication to achieve sustainable success
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Stakeholder Integration, Exploration, and Exploitation in New Ventures
No full textThe literature on stakeholder management suggests that involving stakeholders in the decision-making process of firms is an ethical requirement and a valuable strategic resource for the firm to derive competitive advantages. However, the extent to which stakeholder involvement influences new ventures’ exploration and exploitation activities lacks theoretical clarity. This article extends the entrepreneurship literature by investigating the role of stakeholders in the exploration and exploitation of new ventures and the contingent effect of competitive intensity. In this study, it is proposed that stakeholder integration will positively affect exploration activities but will not significantly relate to exploitation. In addition, we suggest the positive relationship between stakeholder integration and exploration/exploitation activities would be amplified when the competition is intense. Implications for entrepreneurship theory and practice are discussed.</p
Stakeholder Management Challenges and the Complexities of Promoting Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa
No full textIn recent years, there has been significant attention given to stakeholder management, which involves the intricate interaction between organisations and individuals, as well as diverse groups that can significantly affect or shape an organisation’s decisions. While progress has been made, African countries are seen as the next promising frontier for progress and advancement. Nevertheless, there remains a lack of understanding of this concept, as the continent is undergoing remarkable economic growth. Entrepreneurs operating in such environments face intricate landscapes when it comes to stakeholder management. Consequently, understanding how stakeholders contribute to the growth of entrepreneurial ventures in Africa is crucial to promote sustainable and responsible business practices. This chapter presents insights that can stimulate future research on stakeholder management within the intricate and diverse African setting. The chapter conceptualises the relationship between stakeholders and entrepreneurship in Africa and shows how entrepreneurial firms navigate the challenges associated with weak institutional environments.</p
Gender, Culture, and Stakeholder Management Strategies in Africa
No full textThe chapter reviews existing literature to provide insights into the impact of gender and culture on women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses how gender and culture influence business growth, resilience, and stakeholder management. The chapter further establishes that business growth in women-led entrepreneurial ventures is relative and may not be measured by conventional outcomes. We also found that educated women in Africa, with adequate social capital, are taking up entrepreneurship, but the sociocultural and economic context within which they operate continues to challenge their enterprises. This review recommends further empirical studies on women’s entrepreneurship and the role of “charismatism” as a driver of women’s entrepreneurship in Africa. It also recommends studies into how societal stereotypes and expectations have evolved and how this enables or impedes women entrepreneurs
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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