Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance VII
4. Contents IX
5. List of Contributors XIII
6. Chapter 1 An Introduction 1
7. Section 1: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development in an African Context
8. Chapter 2 Witnessing Rural Development Challenges Within Africa: Social and Institutional Reflections from Ghana and Nigeria 27
9. Chapter 3 Rural Youth Enterprise Programmes in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Nigerian Government-Initiated and Government-Funded Programmes 49
10. Chapter 4 Scaling Up or Not – That Is the Question: Rural Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa 69
11. Chapter 5 The Relationship Between Entrepreneurship Training and Emancipation of Rural Women: How Does It Differ According to Marital Status? 81
12. Chapter 6 The Role of Women Entrepreneurs in the Egyptian Rural Context: An Institutional Perspective 101
13. Chapter 7 Business Model Canvas of Rural Micro-women Entrepreneurs in Ghana 121
14. Chapter 8 Collective Rural Entrepreneurship to Valorise Origin-Linked Products: A Study in Ghana 143
15. Chapter 9 Value Chain Optimisation for Rural Enterprises in a Turbulent Environment 163
16. Section 2: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development in a Developed World Context
17. Chapter 10 ‘Bees Are Family’: Beekeeping Artisans Influencing Rural Entrepreneurship in Kosovo 183
18. Chapter 11 Rural Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: Auto-ethnographic Research from Sabah, Malaysia 201
19. Chapter 12 Partition, Policy and Migration: Rural Entrepreneurship and the Development of Sports Goods Clusters in Northern India 217
20. Chapter 13 Methodological Framework to Address the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Process 235
21. Chapter 14 Exploring the Links Between Organised Crime, Geo-politics and Regional Development in a North African and Developing Country Context 253
22. Section 3: Lessons Learned in Relation to Rural Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies from a Research, Policy and Practice perspective
23. Chapter 15 Afterword: What Have We Learned from the Chapters? 271
24. Index