Home: The Start of Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship Learning
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 2, April 2019
Pages:
8-16
Received:
11 April 2019
Accepted:
26 June 2019
Published:
5 August 2019
Abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the possibility of orientating children to become interested in entrepreneurship through the activities they do at home. The youths are often blamed for being idle, lazy and drug addicts, yet parents make little effort towards orienting them to be entrepreneurial. Earlier studies in entrepreneurship claim that [1-2] entrepreneurship is never complete without mentioning “intrapreneurship”. Intrapreneurship knowledge is said to come from practical experiences. A home has the capability and capacity to offer such knowledge to children. Data was gathered through interview with entrepreneurs who left school from primary, secondary schools and universities and started businesses to evaluate whether there is a relationship between the activities that children developed interest in, in their early age at home with their current businesses. The result suggests a relationship between children’s activities at home and entrepreneurial engagement as grownups. Many of the interviewees, however, bemoaned the fact that their parents admonished them from pursuing activities that they had interest in, and now they are just trying to recollect what they had shied away from for long, trying to develop it into entrepreneurial activities. They regret the fact that their parents and their communities did not give them the encouragement they needed to realise their dreams. This study has implications to parents, community members and policy makers to always appreciate children’s interest, initiatives and encourage them to pursue it.
Abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the possibility of orientating children to become interested in entrepreneurship through the activities they do at home. The youths are often blamed for being idle, lazy and drug addicts, yet parents make little effort towards orienting them to be entrepreneurial. Earlier studies in entrepreneurship claim t...
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Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr Datings, Petrogenesis and Thermometry of the Ngovayang Area (South-West Cameroon): Isotopic Data Insight of Recycling Crust and Convergence Orogen
Ndong Bidzang Francois,
Ntomba Sylvestre Martial,
Ntomb Yvan Demonstel,
Messi Ottou Eric Jose,
Magnekou Takamte Rufine Christelle
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 2, April 2019
Pages:
17-32
Received:
5 August 2019
Accepted:
4 September 2019
Published:
19 September 2019
Abstract: The Ngovayang trondhjemitic gneisses belong to the Nyong Complex at the Northwest boundary of the Ntem Complex. A combined study of whole-rock major, trace elements and isotopic data, Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr indicate that trondhjemitic gneisses are peraluminous and range from weakly I-type to S-type with nearly constant A/CNK values between 1.04 and 1.24. Their I- and S- type characters suggest that juvenile materials have been partially remobilized or recycled. These trondhjemitic gneisses have slightly to moderate MgO, Cr and Ni contents, ISr (0.703677 - 0.741911) and low εNd(t) (from -16.48 to -10.6) values. Such geochemical features suggest a small mantle-source contribution, coupled with assimilation of some upper and lower crustal materials and indicate the implication of old crust probably with both Archean and Early eburnean origin (2597 - 2318 Ma). They also exhibit geochemical features typical of calc-alkaline, crustal contaminated calcalkaline rocks, volcanic arc and trondhjemitic nature. These results show that old crust has recycled and trondhjemitic gneisses are linked to convergent geodynamic system. The petrogenetic diagrams of AFM vs CFM, MgO vs SiO2 and Rb/Ba vs Rb/Sr and lower K2O/Na2O ratio values (0.38-0.51), indicate that the magmatic source materials are mainly composed of plagioclase-rich sources such as metagreywackes - metabasic mixtures, metagreywackes and metabasics and basalt or igneous rocks. These sources materials occurring in the melt originated from both slab melting and assimilation of upper and lower crust at ca. 732.4 - 928.7°C and at 2597 - 2318 Ma. This study shows that Archean crust may have a North-West extension beyond the actual boundary with Nyong Complex.
Abstract: The Ngovayang trondhjemitic gneisses belong to the Nyong Complex at the Northwest boundary of the Ntem Complex. A combined study of whole-rock major, trace elements and isotopic data, Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr indicate that trondhjemitic gneisses are peraluminous and range from weakly I-type to S-type with nearly constant A/CNK values between 1.04 and 1.24. ...
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