caa a22 4500 445877332 CHVBK 20180317145531.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-009-9222-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-009-9222-6 The growth process of informal enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of a metalworking cluster in Nairobi [Elektronische Daten] [Tetsushi Sonobe, John Akoten, Keijiro Otsuka] Small and informal enterprises are preponderant in Africa's manufacturing sector. Their growth is negligibly low except when young and small, but little is known beyond this. This paper reports the results of our field study of a metalworking cluster in Nairobi. As competition was intensified by the entry of new enterprises, the education level of entrepreneurs became important in determining enterprise performance, which is reminiscent of East Asian experiences. Recently, some enterprises have left for formal industrial areas partly because their original sites have become too congested for them to grow and partly because being formal facilitates marketing and further growth. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2009 Africa nationallicence Kenya nationallicence Industrial development nationallicence Informal sector nationallicence Human capital nationallicence Sonobe Tetsushi Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan aut Akoten John Institute of Policy Analysis and Research, Nairobi, Kenya aut Otsuka Keijiro Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan aut Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/3(2011-04-01), 323-335 0921-898X 36:3<323 2011 36 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9222-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9222-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sonobe Tetsushi Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Akoten John Institute of Policy Analysis and Research, Nairobi, Kenya aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Otsuka Keijiro Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/3(2011-04-01), 323-335 0921-898X 36:3<323 2011 36 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer