IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/deveza/v37y2020i2p348-361.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Owner-manager human capital and business coping ability in African immigrant small businesses in Southern Africa

Author

Listed:
  • Chukuakadibia Eresia-Eke
  • Chijioke Okerue

Abstract

African immigrant-entrepreneurs arrive in foreign countries with just their human capital that helps them birth small businesses. Like other small businesses, these have the potential to contribute to the economic development of host nations, often by creating jobs; an important role, given the high levels of unemployment in the Southern African region. Unfortunately, the potential is deflated by the inability of the African-immigrant entrepreneurs to cope with running the businesses.This empirical study utilised a non-probability sampling technique to identify and collect data from African immigrant entrepreneurs in Southern Africa. Descriptive statistical analysis show that managerial skills and level of education are perceived to play the highest and lowest roles, respectively, as it concerns coping ability. Interestingly, despite the perception, multiple regression analysis conducted reveal that both level of education and managerial skills demonstrate significant relationships with the business coping ability of African immigrant-entrepreneurs.

Suggested Citation

  • Chukuakadibia Eresia-Eke & Chijioke Okerue, 2020. "Owner-manager human capital and business coping ability in African immigrant small businesses in Southern Africa," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(2), pages 348-361, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:37:y:2020:i:2:p:348-361
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2019.1701414
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/0376835X.2019.1701414
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/0376835X.2019.1701414?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Smith, Daniel & Old, Kevin & Renwick, Alan & Westbrooke, Victoria, 2023. "The Characteristics, Challenges, and Resilience of Small Rural Farm-Support Agribusiness: A systematic literature review," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 31(1), April.
    2. Mukhamad Najib & Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman & Farah Fahma, 2021. "Business Survival of Small and Medium-Sized Restaurants through a Crisis: The Role of Government Support and Innovation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-16, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:37:y:2020:i:2:p:348-361. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CDSA20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.