scholarly journals Prospects and Challenges of Managing Clusters as Entrepreneurship Development Interventions for Sustainable Development in Nigeria: A Discourse Analysis

2017 ◽  
pp. 69-81
Author(s):  
Lukman Raimi ◽  
Morufu Oladimeji Shokunbi ◽  
Stephen Bolaji Peluola
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Development Interventions

Millennials empowerment: youth entrepreneurship for sustainable development

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikedinachi K. Ogamba
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Entrepreneurship Policy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Complementary Action ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge and theory building in youth empowerment and entrepreneurship development. Design/methodology/approach This paper critically examines the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN) programme and its relevance as a youth economic empowerment programme through the lens of the UNDP Youth Strategy entry points for promoting economic empowerment of youth and extant literature on critical youth empowerment using participatory development theories. Findings While YouWiN is a significant intervention towards entrepreneurship development, it presents some flaws and limitations in the design and implementation process, which may challenge sustainable economic development. Hence, there is a need to explore the millennials empowerment paradigm in light of three key complementary action-oriented approaches to youth entrepreneurship development. Originality/value This paper proposes three key complementary action-oriented approaches to youth entrepreneurship policy/programme design, implementation and evaluation for the multilateral agencies, private and voluntary sectors. These are in the form of facilitating participatory engagement and diversity, managing drivers (push/pull factors) of entrepreneurship, and ensuring access to enablers/support. There is the need for further debate and critical inputs to improve theory building towards a normative framework in youth empowerment and entrepreneurship. This contributes to ending poverty, and promoting intergenerational equity and sustainable development.

Chinese corporations’ conception of sustainable development: an innovative view of corpus analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Huang ◽  
Wenzhong Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Business World ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Challenging Issue ◽  
Key Word ◽  
Sustainability Reports

Purpose After over 30 years’ reform and opening-up, China as the second largest economy is now facing the most essential transformation of management philosophy and the biggest challenging issue of business sustainable development, with people’s increasing worry of the deterioration of environmental pollution, food security and human health. It can be said that what China needs urgently today is business ethical value and long-term sustainable development concept, rather than rapidly growing GDP. The purpose of this paper is to assess how the term “sustainable development” is constructed and valued in the sustainability reports or corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports of Chinese corporations, so as to interpret these Chinese firms’ conception of sustainable development in their real business practices. Design/methodology/approach A corpus of sustainability reports collected from 30 Chinese corporations totaling 247,311 tokens is first of all compiled to realize the objective of study. Then the authors use the AntConc, a corpus analysis toolkit, to generate word lists, key-word-in-context concordances and collocation lists, as well as calculating statistical significance measures for collocates, of which the mutual information (MI) score 3 is most relevant to the paper’s purposes. Based on the key-word-in-context concordance and collocation list, the authors can find what context “sustainable development” usually appears in sustainability reports, thus inferring Chinese corporations’ conception of sustainable development. Findings The result indicates that Chinese corporations use the rhetoric of weak sustainability, indicating that sustainable development is compatible with further economic growth, which means that Chinese corporations in current China, strongly promoting the concept of new normal economy, still put economic growth as a dominant goal, on which other dimensions of sustainability like environmental protection depend. Research limitations/implications The data gleaned in current corpus are limited to the sustainability reports in 2014 thus the study provides no hints as to diachronic trends. However, this study increases our understanding of how Chinese corporations attach value to sustainable development from the view of corpus analysis. Originality/value Different from traditional discourse analysis, which usually carries out qualitative analysis to analyze how a word or phrase is constructed in a small number of texts, the authors’ study innovatively introduces the method of corpus analysis to explore how Chinese corporations construct “sustainable development” in their sustainability reports. Thus, the number of texts analyzed is larger in the authors’ study and their findings are more representative and convincing. The authors create a more qualitative understanding of what the reports are actually saying on their reports and prove that corpus methods can bring new application to the discourse analysis of the biggest challenging issue of China’s future economic growth, suggesting a potential novel way to work out the meaning and implication of sustainable development in Chinese real business world.

Advancing a Framework for Entrepreneurship Development in a Bioeconomy

2021 ◽  
pp. 295-315
Author(s):  
Oluwaseun James Oguntuase
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Opportunities ◽  
Substitute Products ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

This chapter frames bioeconomy as a pathway to sustainable development, and entrepreneurship as the bedrock of a bioeconomy. Its objective is threefold. First, the chapter enumerates the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in a bioeconomy. Second, the chapter identifies the key production determinants and transformative game changers in a bioeconomy that should be the focus of innovative entrepreneurial activities. Third, it presents a conceptual framework for entrepreneurship development in a bioeconomy. The chapter employs systematic literature review approach to achieve its objectives. In total, the chapter asserts that there are several entrepreneurial opportunities in a bioeconomy, spanning the production determinants, the development of transformative game changers, and in distinct innovations like substitute products, new (bio-based) products and new (bio-based) processes.

Entrepreneurship Development Interventions as a Pragmatic Approach to Political and Economic Restructuring in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 435-452
Author(s):  
Lukman Raimi ◽  
Hassan Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Systematic Collection

This study discusses the imperative of entrepreneurship development interventions as pragmatic responses to political and economic restructuring in Nigeria. The qualitative research method, which entails a systematic collection of information extracted from government documents and scholarly articles, was adopted. The extracted information was critically reviewed and synthesized using content analysis. The chapter found that political and economic structures in Nigeria are largely ineffective and require urgent restructuring. For political restructuring, there is a need for constitutional amendments, while for economic restructuring, the establishment of industrial clusters to reinvigorate entrepreneurship development interventions is imperative. The study concludes with policy implications and suggestions for further research.

Views on education for sustainable development (ESD) among lecturers in UK MSc taught courses

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Melles
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Interview Studies ◽  
Sustainability Principles ◽  
Personal Ethics

PurposeIn the new Sustainability 2.0 era of education for sustainable development (ESD) transforming, curriculum remains a high interest topic, including in the UK. Among influential factors for progress, lecturer views on sustainable development and ESD in curriculum are important. In particular, the relationship between espoused views on sustainability and development and these views institutionalized into the curriculum require further investigation. Existing qualitative interview studies of lecturers identify a range of views about sustainable development and ESD but rarely focus on postgraduate environments nor use thematic discourse analysis.Design/methodology/approachThis active interview study enrolled a cohort of academics (n= 21) teaching into ten postgraduate UK taught masters degrees. Using active interviews and thematic discourse analysis, this study focused lecturer accounts of translating sustainable development into ESD, student attitudes and characteristics and course nature and content in relation to institutional, disciplinary, personal and other drivers and discourses. Thematic discourse analysis and NVivo 12 the study identified themes and discourses arising from the interview accounts.FindingsIn addition to identifying echoes of previously identified themes, this study focuses on the influence of interviewer–interviewee interaction and the interrelated nature of themes developed from 972 substantive codes. These themes identify the key influences as institutional, personal and disciplinary perspectives, institutional contrasts and tensions; pragmatic and passionate student characteristics; flexible sustainability principles and definitions; and social and personal ethics, ideology and equity, as key factors. Despite varying in length and depth, interviewees all show a deep appreciation for the challenges of defining and teaching sustainable development in complex institutional circumstances.Practical implicationsFaculty accounts of sustainable development and ESD practice depend on personal ethics and experiences, disciplinary discourses and institutional drivers and arrangements. Rather than focusing on simple categorizations of views in abstract, progress toward transformational ESD should acknowledge the need for dialogue about the importance of a plurality of views and discourses.Originality/valueThematic discourse analysis of a multi-institutional cohort affords closer analysis of contextual institutional and identity factors influencing approaches to HESD. Academic views cannot be easily subcategorized into broad conservative or radical positions. Final discussion of the relevance of institutional theory to sustainability change is also new.

The Role of Stakeholders in Post Conflict Peacebuilding in Swat, Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qasim Ali Shah ◽  
Bahadar Nawab ◽  
Tahir Mehmood
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Government

Peacebuilding is a continuous process to transform conflicts into development opportunities for and by the stakeholders. This article explores the role of stakeholders in post-conflict peacebuilding in Swat. Applying Constructivist paradigm and Discourse Analysis, 80 semi-structured interviews were conducted by incorporating local community, civil society and the government. Study finds out that cultural, political, social and economic tiers of peacebuilding measures in Swat hardly achieved its purpose. The lack of institutional coordination and gaps in peacebuilding measures are important hurdles, which needs to be minimized for sustainable development processes in Swat.

Guiding Principles for Effective Engagement of Geoscientists in Sustainable Development Activities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel C. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
British Geological Survey ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Training And Support ◽  
Business As Usual

<p>Geoscience is foundational to sustainability, and an enabler of inclusive economic growth, human development, and environmental protection. Geoscientists understanding of Earth resources, dynamics and systems can help (in partnership with others) to advance progress and support the transition to sustainability, as set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ‘Business as usual’, however, is not enough to realise the significant ambitions of this development agenda, ensuring that we leave no one behind. As the geoscience community steps up to meet the geoscientific requirements of the SDGs we need to review not just what we can contribute, but also how we work.</p><p>Effective pathways for future sustainability therefore requires geoscientists to adapt in order to increase the relevance and impact of our contribution, improve accountability, and build respectful partnerships for development. This presentation articulates and discusses 10 guiding principles that aim to enhance the way in which we work, particularly when collaborating with those in the Global South (so called ‘developing countries’). These guiding principles draw upon existing internationally recognised quality standards for development and humanitarian work and set these into the context of geoscience-for-development activities (including research, innovation, training, and capacity strengthening).</p><p>Guiding principles advocate geoscience-for-development activities that:</p><ol><li>Support lasting and positive change, through appropriate, relevant and sustainable activities.</li> <li>Strengthen local capacity and ownership of geoscience-for-development activities (empowerment).</li> <li>Advance inclusion of vulnerable and marginalised groups.</li> <li>Communicate effectively, including listening.</li> <li>Capture and share learning with both internal and external audiences.</li> <li>Identify and act upon potential or actual unintended negative effects in a timely and systematic manner.</li> <li>Value cooperation, working in a coordinated and complementary manner.</li> <li>Manage resources effectively, efficiently and ethically.</li> <li>Ensure appropriate internal training and support.</li> <li>Are transparent and accountable.</li> </ol><p>These principles support the planning of high-quality sustainable development interventions, effective monitoring and evaluation of project partnerships and approaches, and clear communication of values to all relevant stakeholders. Indicators for each guiding principle illustrate how to demonstrate these within a project, supported by active, critical reflection on the specific context. These guiding principles have shaped the ODA activities of the British Geological Survey programme, Geoscience for Sustainable Future, with examples set out during this presentation.</p>

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