Jean Kabongo is Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Accreditation in the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida, USA. His current research focuses on the analysis and promotion of sustainable practices in organizations, sustainable entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education in developing economies.

Simon Sigué is Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean of Operations at Athabasca University, Canada. His research covers such topics as entrepreneurial marketing, franchising, marketing channels, marketing strategies, game theory, and international marketing.

James Baba Abugre is Professor at the University of Ghana Business School. He focuses on the interaction of actors in resolving effective human resource development and management in institutions.

Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: A venture-ship approach.- Part II Affect, passion, optimism, and the entrepreneur. Chapter 2. Revisiting entrepreneurship education in Ghana: institutional dynamics, implications, and the way forward.- Chapter 3. Youth entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: understanding relationships that exist between business and individual characteristics, challenges, and the ways forward.- Chapter 4. Determinants of energy choices among micro-women entrepreneurs in food preparation and service industry in Dar-es-Salaam.- Chapter 5. Firm attributes, women top managers and entrepreneurial outcomes in a private sector in Tanzania.- Part III Leveraging, resourcing, bricolage, and effectuation. Chapter 6. Effectuation and bricolage and their applicability to Sub-Saharan African entrepreneurship.- Chapter 7. Entrepreneurship and open innovation in the informal sectors of sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 8. Challenging established structures: gender and rural entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 9. Assessing customer service for sustainable micro, small, and medium entrepreneurial firms: lessons from Ghana.- Chapter 10. Government and investor support challenges and future visions relative to successful creative entrepreneurship in Ghana.- Part IV. Conclusion.- Chapter 11. Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa from a venture-ship approach: A research agenda.