ABSTRACT This study offers a novel evaluation of the conditions for Total Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) and Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) across 59 Sub-Saharan African regions. The analysis employs fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (2013) survey data using five condition variables, measuring regional-level entrepreneurial attitudes and perceptions, including education level, considered against TEA and EI. This novel regional contribution identifies diversity between African countries and regions for entrepreneurial activities and its drivers, with several groups identified. This highlights a requirement for future research encompassing further countries and regions in African, and also multi-year studies that can track these issues longitudinally. The study informs knowledge and practice regarding entrepreneurial behaviour across African regions. Through examination of the different combinations of condition variables, across causal recipes, it provides understanding of variations in the socio-cultural drivers of entrepreneurial activity between regions, groups of regions, and countries, for TEA and EI.

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使用模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）调查非洲地区的总体创业活动和创业意向

摘要这项研究对撒哈拉以南非洲59个地区的总体创业活动（TEA）和创业意向（EI）条件进行了新颖的评估。该分析采用了模糊集定性比较分析，该定性比较分析使用了五个条件变量的全球创业监测器（2013年）调查数据，测量了针对TEA和EI的区域级企业家的态度和看法，包括教育水平。这一新颖的区域贡献确定了非洲国家和地区之间企业家活动及其驱动因素的多样性，并确定了几个群体。这突出了对包括非洲其他国家和地区在内的未来研究的需求，以及可以纵向追踪这些问题的多年研究的需求。该研究为非洲地区的企业家行为提供了知识和实践。通过检查因果关系中条件变量的不同组合，可以了解TEA和EI在区域，区域组和国家之间的创业活动的社会文化驱动因素的差异。