African Merchants of the Gold Coast, 1860-1905-Dynamics of Indigenous Entrepreneurship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raymond E Dumett (Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 661-693 |
| Publication date | 1983-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500010665 |
| OpenAlex | W2137387354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 36 |
Entrepreneurship in Africa can be analyzed from a number of perspectives. One approach, undoubtedly the most popular among economic anthropologists and sociologists, has been to conduct group surveys of the attitudes and behavior of small-scale traders and market-stall operators against the background of specific urban or rural settings. These studies have emphasized the importance of religion, ethnic group affiliation, family or clan structure, specialization, and the development of long-distance trading networks through migration or diaspora. Another type of study pioneered by Polly Hill, and since taken up by other field economists and historians, has been to analyze the individual innovation, cooperative effort, and adaptation of traditional institutions involved in the development of export crop agriculture (groundnuts, cocoa, coffee) by small farmers in Africa
Agriculture · Clan · Diaspora · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Entrepreneurship · Ethnic group · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Ecology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
West Africa
Africa and Africas
Commerce, Credit, and Mobility in Late Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast
Spatio-temporal distribution and consumption of local earthenwares from 19th-20th century Amedeka, Southeastern Ghana
Gold coasters overseas, 1880–1919
Nifa Nifa”
The politics of policy failure in Ghana
Producing a Received View of Gold Coast Elite Society? C.F. Hutchison's Pen Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities
Perspectives on Fifty Years of Ghanaian Historiography
Spirits of migration’ meet the ‘migration of spirits’ among the Akan Diaspora in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The jailhouse divergence
The Devil We Know”
Nested Patriotism
Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana
How Europe underdeveloped Africa
Cocoa, custom, and socio-economic change in rural Western Nigeria
Markets in Africa.
Dreams and deeds
The achieving society.
The migrant cocoa-farmers of southern Ghana
The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities
Letters on the Political Condition of the Gold Coast
Pre-colonial trading networks and traders
A Treatise on Political Economy in 1823
A Treatise on Political Economy
Asante before the British
Asante before the British. The Prempean Years, 1875-1900
West African Culture Dynamics
African Traders and Economic Development in Ghana
The Changing Economy of the Lower Volta 1954–67
The Kambarin Beriberi
The Relevance of Spatial Analysis for African Economic History
Lango Agriculture during the early Colonial Period
Calico Caravans
John Sarbah, the elder, and African mercantile entrepreneurship in the Gold Coast in the late nineteenth Century
The rubber trade of the Gold Coast and Asante in the nineteenth century
The Volta River Salt Trade
The Compatibility of the Slave and Palm oil Trades in the Bight of Biafra
Small-scale entrepreneurs in Ghana and development planning
Achievement Values of Filipino Entrepreneurs and Politicians
History in Geographic Perspective
Economic Transition in Africa
The Effect of the Nigerian Extended Family on Entrepreneurial Activity
Economic Transition in Africa
"On the "Genesis of Modern Management
West African Traders in Ghana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
A Price Agreement on the Gold Coast-the Krobo Oil Boycott, 1858-1866
The Trade Makers. Elder Dempster in West Africa 1852-1972
A Sociohistorical Study of the Development of Entrepreneurship among the Ijebu of Western Nigeria
European, Lebanese, and African Traders in Pendembu, Sierra Leone
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2025 (41) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |