Senegalese immigrant entrepreneurial entanglements and religious-cultural continuities.
Senegalese entrepreneurship in South Africa is a typical example of how entrepreneurial entanglements are beginning to pose huge challenges to the theorization and understanding of modern African forms of business. This group of immigrant entrepreneurs finds it difficult to separate the use of charm...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion in Africa Vol. 43; no. 3; p. 362 |
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