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Item An Assessment of Entrepreneurial Disposition and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Lessons from Ghana(Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 2018-04) Adom, K.; Chiri, N.; Quaye, D.; Awuah-Werekoh, K.This paper assesses the impact of Ghanaian culture on the entrepreneurial disposition of Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates of Accra Polytechnic from 2007 to 2012. Since the turn of the millennium, there has been more attention given to job creation than job seeking, especially among the youth, to address unemployment in developing countries. This is because of governments’ inability to match the growing number of job seekers to job creation across the globe. One way to address this deficit in Ghana is the introduction of courses in entrepreneurship in almost all tertiary institutions, coupled with the setting up of institutions such as Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Development Agency (GYEEDA), National Youth Employment Program (NYEP), Youth Entrepreneurship Agency (YEA), Youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES), among others. Reporting on 2015 data from Accra, the main finding was that collectivistic culture has negative effects on capital accumulation, human resource management and the urgency the unemployed graduates attached to self-employment. Therefore, this paper calls for some ways to address the issue of graduates’ inability to be enterprising. Keywords: Culture; entrepreneurial disposition; Ghana; Polytechnic; sub-Saharan Africa.Item Entrepreneurial Disposition and Culture: a Case of Graduates of Accra Polytechnic(University Of Ghana, 2016-06) Chiri, N.It is true that globally unemployment in general and graduate unemployment in particular is scaling, most especially in developing economies such as Ghana. Entrepreneurship has been seen as one of the means to solving this unemployment menace. However, culture has been identified as one of the major factors that influence the entrepreneurial intent of people. This study therefore, sets out to gauge the impact of Ghanaian culture on the entrepreneurial disposition of Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates of Accra Polytechnic who graduated between 2007 and 2012. The study adopts qualitative research approach. Face – to – face and telephone interviews were used to gather data on 46 graduates of the polytechnic. Sampling was by means of snowball and convenience techniques. Thematic and narrative analysis techniques were adopted for data analysis. The study found that, collectivism/collectivistic ethic culture has negative effect on capital accumulation, human resource management, and the urgency unemployed graduates attached to the efforts leading to entrepreneurship. Lack of start – up capital largely due to inability to accumulate funds, and the failure of the financial institutions to support new ventures is also affecting the entrepreneurial intents of the graduates. Based on the above listed and other findings, the study made the following recommendations; students should endeavour to cultivate the habit of pooling resources together, institutions established by the state to engender entrepreneurship among graduates must foster close collaboration with the training institutions, also the training institution (Accra Polytechnic) must closely collaborate with industry, most especially the financial institutions.