The Advance of African Capital : : The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise / / Tom Forrest.
Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, this study is the most detailed, most extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business yet published. It examines the strategies and patterns employed by business people from the colonial period to the present day and provides profiles...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | International African Library : IAL
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS, TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE ADVANCE OF AFRICAN CAPITAL 1900-1992: AN OVERVIEW -- 3. EARLY BUSINESS PROFILES -- 4. LAGOS ENTERPRISES -- 5. THE RISE OF TWO CONGLOMERATES -- 6. ENTERPRISES IN ANAMBRA STATE -- 7. ABA AND IMO STATE ENTERPRISES -- 8. THE ADVANCE OF INDIGENOUS CAPITAL IN KANO AND KADUNA -- 9. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, this study is the most detailed, most extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business yet published. It examines the strategies and patterns employed by business people from the colonial period to the present day and provides profiles of Nigeria's key entrepreneurs. Not only a valuable digest of business activities, this important study also challenges existing views about African enterprise and is highly relevant to policy-makers concerned with economic development. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781474496889 9783110780475 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781474496889 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Tom Forrest. |