Entrepreneurs' Creative Responses to Institutional Challenges: Insider Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa (Emerald Points)

This book reveals insider perspectives of the everyday struggles of Tanzanian and Zambian entrepreneurs by distinguishing institutional constraints and enablers, and sustainability practices as responses to those opportunities and barriers. The book contributes to existing literature by providing entrepreneurs from sub-Saharan Africa the opportunity to illustrate how their institutional context influences their sustainability practices at the micro level. Written for scholars of Business and Entrepreneurship, this book showcases how entrepreneurs use creative and bricolage methods to implement sustainability practices that contribute to social and environmental well-being.

Dr. Neil A. Thompson is Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dr. Thompson's ongoing research covers topics related to entrepreneurship as practice, organizational creativity, new venture creation, sustainable development, organization theory, institutional theory, organizational change, new industry development, economic sociology, and historical methods.