Traoré, Massaran, Hilson, Gavin, Hilson, Abigail (2024) Reimagining entrepreneurship in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector: Fresh insights from sub-Saharan Africa. Africa Journal of Management, 10 (2). pp. 176-207. ISSN 2332-2373. E-ISSN 2332-2381. (doi:10.1080/23322373.2024.2349481) (KAR id:106526)
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Abstract
This paper shares new insights on the dynamics of entrepreneurship in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector, focusing on the case of sub-Saharan Africa. Despite being the region’s most important rural nonfarm activity, and generating finance that sustains a sizable portion of its subsistence/smallholder agricultural economy, ASM has barely featured in the business and management literature. It has rather been scholars from other disciplines who have shared opinions on the individuals who pursue work in this sector and why. They are in broad agreement that in sub-Saharan Africa, ASM sites attract, at the one extreme, people who are desperate for income (the “poverty-driven” category) and, at the other extreme, individuals motivated by the possibility of becoming wealthy (the “get-rich-quick” category). These two narratives map, virtually wholesale, on to the necessity-based-opportunity-based typology of entrepreneurship that business and management scholars have interrogated for decades. This paper fuses these narratives with the typology, with the goal of showcasing ASM within an evolving body of literature on entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. It then draws on a case study of Kéniéba District (Mali), the location of one of the region’s more dynamic gold-panning industries, to articulate more clearly the sector’s different entrepreneurs.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/23322373.2024.2349481 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), entrepreneurship, poverty, sub-Saharan Africa |
Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5351 Business H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5601 Accounting |
Divisions: | Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Accounting and Finance |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2024 14:02 UTC |
Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 09:11 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106526 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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