Given the potential importance of self-employment for African economic development, the
present paper provides an overview of the current state of entrepreneurship research in …

Project controls have traditionally been focused on after-the-fact detection of variances. This
thesis proposes a control system, the Last Planner system, that causes the realization of …

Proponents of trade liberalization argue that exporting helps firms to achieve higher
productivity levels. This hypothesis is examined for a panel of manufacturing firms in nine …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding and knowledge of the
impact of globalisation on African small and medium enterprise (SME) development. The …

We use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries to
investigate whether exporting impacts on efficiency, and whether efficient firms self-select …

A contingency allowance is an amount of money used to provide for uncertainties
associated with a construction project. Traditionally, it is a percentage addition on top of the …

This paper tests two alternative models of selection into export: lower costs and better
market familiarity. Both are potentially subject to learning-by-doing, but differ in the type of …

This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using plant-
level panel data for Ethiopian manufacturing. We trace the trajectory of total factor …

The poor performance of many African economies has been associated with low growth of
exports in general and of manufacturing exports in particular. The two most successful …

In the context of Africa, which firms are driven out of business? Given that many markets do
not function efficiently in Africa, the determinants of firm exit may not be the same …