How individuals learn to do more with less: The role of informal learning and the effects of higher-level education and unemployment in Ghana

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Africa Journal of Management Pub Date : 2022-03-20 DOI:10.1080/23322373.2022.2039051

Anne König, C. Schmidt, Bastian Kindermann, Marc Alexander Peter Schmidt, T. Flatten

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT With a rapidly growing population, Africa faces a significant job creation challenge. One solution to this is to encourage local entrepreneurship. Yet, entrepreneurs are facing an environment where resources are scarce. A way to enact entrepreneurial opportunities in such a penurious environment is to use bricolage and create products or services by making do with what is at hand. We support the notion that bricolage can to some extent be learnt at the individual level. We examine this viewpoint in an empirical study in Ghana with 353 actual and aspiring entrepreneurs. We examine the direct effects of informal learning in the workplace on bricolage, while investigating the moderating effects of higher-level formal education and unemployment. Our findings show that bricolage can be fostered at the individual level through informal learning, and thereby enables individuals in Ghana to form opportunities through bricolage.

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个人如何学会用更少的钱做更多的事：非正规学习的作用以及加纳高等教育和失业的影响

随着人口的快速增长，非洲面临着创造就业机会的重大挑战。解决这个问题的一个办法是鼓励本地创业。然而，企业家面临着一个资源稀缺的环境。在这样一个匮乏的环境中创造创业机会的一种方法是利用现有的东西来拼凑和创造产品或服务。我们支持这样一种观点，即拼凑在某种程度上可以在个人层面上学习。我们在加纳对353名实际和有抱负的企业家进行的实证研究中检验了这一观点。我们研究了工作场所非正式学习对拼凑行为的直接影响，同时调查了更高水平的正规教育和失业的调节作用。我们的研究结果表明，通过非正式学习可以在个人层面上培养拼凑能力，从而使加纳的个人能够通过拼凑创造机会。

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Africa Journal of Management Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

15.40%

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期刊介绍： The beginning of the Twenty First Century has witnessed Africa’s rise and progress as one of the fastest growing and most promising regions of the world. At the same time, serious challenges remain. To sustain and speed up momentum, avoid reversal, and deal effectively with emerging challenges and opportunities, Africa needs better management scholarship, education and practice. The purpose of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) is to advance management theory, research, education, practice and service in Africa by promoting the production and dissemination of high quality and relevant manuscripts. AJOM is committed to publishing original, rigorous, scholarly empirical and theoretical research papers, which demonstrate clear understanding of the management literature and draw on Africa’s local indigenous knowledge, wisdom and current realities. As the first scholarly journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM), AJOM gives voice to all those who are committed to advancing management scholarship, education and practice in or about Africa, for the benefit of all of Africa. AJOM welcomes manuscripts that develop, test, replicate or validate management theories, tools and methods with Africa as the starting point. The journal is open to a wide range of quality, evidence-based methodological approaches and methods that “link” “Western” management theories with Africa’s indigenous knowledge systems, methods and practice. We are particularly interested in manuscripts which address Africa’s most important development needs, challenges and opportunities as well as the big management questions of the day. We are interested in research papers which address issues of ethical conduct in different African settings.