[ La femme entrepreneure au Cameroun: profil, problèmes et typologie ]
Volume 13, Issue 1, September 2015, Pages 10–28
ROUKATOU épse Aboubakar1
1 Department of Management, Strategy and Prospective, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The scope of this study is to draw up the picture of the Cameroonian woman entrepreneur using a sample of 95 women entrepreneurs, in order to evaluate the various stages through which they go before creating in order to point up the barriers the meet during the process, and their typologies. It implements an empirical research which helps to explore the women process of starting-up. It appears that:
Firstly, the entrepreneurship awakening of Cameroonian women is still recent. Secondly, the characteristics and the behaviors of women entrepreneurs are not stiffed and rather depend on the environment in which they evolve. Thirdly, the start-up of businesses by women constitutes a huge stake for the Cameroonian economy. These women entrepreneurs undertake activities which are not categorized and which sometimes lack of vitality. This consequently exposes them to barriers which are not always resorbed despite numerous assistance which can arrive from various horizons. Elsewhere, it is important to remember that Cameroonian women entrepreneurs have as a whole the same reasons of creating start-ups regardless of the regions they evolve. They are influenced by the same sociocultural factors.
Author Keywords: women entrepreneurship, obstacles, typologies, Cameroon, characteristics.
Volume 13, Issue 1, September 2015, Pages 10–28
ROUKATOU épse Aboubakar1
1 Department of Management, Strategy and Prospective, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The scope of this study is to draw up the picture of the Cameroonian woman entrepreneur using a sample of 95 women entrepreneurs, in order to evaluate the various stages through which they go before creating in order to point up the barriers the meet during the process, and their typologies. It implements an empirical research which helps to explore the women process of starting-up. It appears that:
Firstly, the entrepreneurship awakening of Cameroonian women is still recent. Secondly, the characteristics and the behaviors of women entrepreneurs are not stiffed and rather depend on the environment in which they evolve. Thirdly, the start-up of businesses by women constitutes a huge stake for the Cameroonian economy. These women entrepreneurs undertake activities which are not categorized and which sometimes lack of vitality. This consequently exposes them to barriers which are not always resorbed despite numerous assistance which can arrive from various horizons. Elsewhere, it is important to remember that Cameroonian women entrepreneurs have as a whole the same reasons of creating start-ups regardless of the regions they evolve. They are influenced by the same sociocultural factors.
Author Keywords: women entrepreneurship, obstacles, typologies, Cameroon, characteristics.
Abstract: (french)
L'objet de cette recherche est à partir d'un échantillon de 95 entrepreneures, de dresser un portrait des entrepreneures camerounaises, afin d'évaluer leur parcours, pour mettre en exergue les obstacles qu'elles rencontrent, et leurs typologies. Elle met en œuvre une recherche empirique qui permet d'explorer les processus de création d'entreprise par les femmes. Il apparaît que :
Premièrement, l'éveil entrepreneurial chez la femme camerounaise est encore récent. Deuxièmement, les caractéristiques et les comportements des entrepreneures ne sont pas figées et dépendent plutôt de l'environnement dans lequel elles évoluent. Troisièmement, la création d'entreprise par les femmes constitue un enjeu énorme pour l'économie camerounaise. Ces entrepreneures détiennent des activités non catégorisées et qui manquent parfois de vitalité. Ce qui, par conséquent, les expose à des obstacles qui ne sont pas toujours résorbés malgré les aides pouvant leur parvenir de tout horizon. Par ailleurs, il est important de retenir que les femmes entrepreneures camerounaises ont dans l'ensemble les mêmes raisons de créer les entreprises quelle que soit la région dans laquelle elles évoluent. Elles sont influencées par les mêmes facteurs socioculturels.
Author Keywords: entrepreneuriat féminin, obstacles, typologies, Cameroun, caractéristiques.
How to Cite this Article
ROUKATOU épse Aboubakar, “The woman entrepreneur in Cameroon: profile, problems and typology,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 10–28, September 2015.
