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Farmer And Herder Conflict Dynamics In Ghana: The Role Of Environmental Scarcity, Daniel Kofi Banini

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"My Friends, They Are People To Rely On": The Social Foundation Of Business In Ghana, Patrick D. Shulist

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The management and entrepreneurship literatures increasingly engage in poverty alleviation research in the developing world. However, there is a marked tendency to overlook how the Western World, from where most theory comes, differs from the developing world. Such a fallacy has potential deleterious effects on the research itself, but more importantly on the practical applications of that research.

With this in mind, my dissertation uses an inductive qualitative methodology to explore the nature of self-employment in the developing world as it is; that is, not coloured by theoretical priors. In doing this, I lay the groundwork for understanding the …