Informal Family Business in Africa
基于东非非正规微型金融企业的比较案例研究，运用扎根理论，揭示了企业家如何利用家庭和社区关系建立和发展企业，以及非正规经济如何影响企业向高价值创造转型。
Employing grounded theory based on comparative case studies of informal microfinanced businesses in East Africa, we build a theoretical foundation for studying the establishment and evolution of family firms in emerging markets. We show that East African entrepreneurs not only use both strong family and strong community ties to establish and grow businesses, but they also use strong community ties to counterbalance the obligations that strong extended family ties create. In addition, we show that economic informality presents opportunities for some entrepreneurial businesses but not others to cycle rapidly from opportunity to opportunity as they maneuver toward higher value–creating ventures.