Another determinant of entrepreneurship: the belief in witchcraft and entrepreneurship

摘要

Interviews were carried out with entrepreneurs of Doula, Cameroon. These entrepreneurs believed that witchcraft existed and could bring harm to them and their enterprises. Hence, their entrepreneurship was affected to various degrees depending on how strongly they believed in the phenomenon. It was established that some entrepreneurs had been forced to migrate from their families and friends as a way of running away from those who could bring them harm. Due to the fear of attracting witchcraft, some entrepreneurs have had to hide their success or have preferred to remain small rather than to be visually successful. Some have not sought managerial solutions to improve the performances of their enterprises; rather they have left their success and failure to the supernatural, including ancestral spirits and witchcraft.