http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3658 EBS Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:58:20 GMT 2026-06-17T01:58:20Z http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/31279 Title: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENTREPRENEURS Authors: DAUDA, Abdulwaheed Abstract: Entrepreneurship has historically thrived on uncertainty, creativity, and the capacity to identify and exploit opportunities in dynamic environments. In recent decades, however, the foundations of entrepreneurial practice have been profoundly reshaped by digital technologies. Among these, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the most transformative force, redefining how entrepreneurs discover opportunities, design business models, mobilize resources, and scale ventures. What was once the exclusive domain of science fiction has rapidly matured into a practical set of tools and capabilities permeating nearly every sector of the global economy. The entrepreneurial ecosystem is therefore at a critical inflection point, where the integration of AI is not merely optional but increasingly central to competitive advantage, sustainability, and societal impact. The rationale for examining AI in entrepreneurship is twofold. First, AI has moved beyond back-end efficiency to become a front-line driver of innovation, enabling the development of new products, services, and even entirely new markets. From predictive analytics that identify emerging consumer needs to generative systems that create novel designs, entrepreneurs are leveraging AI to collapse time-to-market cycles and enhance creativity. Second, the widespread adoption of AI raises new strategic, ethical, and institutional challenges. Entrepreneurs must navigate not only the opportunities of personalization, automation, and global reach but also the risks of bias, data dependency, and regulatory uncertainty. This duality underscores the importance of situating AI within the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem to understand both its enabling and constraining dimensions. Artificial Intelligence itself is a multidimensional construct. It encompasses machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, and, more recently, generative AI systems. Each of these technologies presents distinct implications for entrepreneurial practice that this chapter is poised to unravel. Description: Descriptive and empirical Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/31279 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/31278 Title: ENTREPRENEURIAL RESILIENCE IN DIGITAL ECONOMIES DURING CRISES Authors: DAUDA, Abdulwaheed Abstract: Entrepreneurship has always been shaped by turbulence. Crises whether economic recessions, public health emergencies, political instability, or environmental disruptions regularly destabilize markets and reconfigure the landscape of opportunity. These shocks impose severe constraints on enterprises, particularly start-ups and small businesses that typically operate with limited buffers. Supply chains collapse, consumer demand fluctuates unpredictably, financing dries up, and entire industries can be rendered obsolete almost overnight. Such disruptions expose the vulnerability of entrepreneurial ventures while simultaneously revealing their latent capacity for reinvention. In this volatile context, the digital economy has emerged as both a disruptor and an enabler. On the one hand, digital technologies exacerbate competitive pressures, compress product life cycles, and accelerate the pace at which entrepreneurs must adapt. On the other, they provide powerful tools for resilience: platforms that connect businesses to customers beyond geographic limits, fintech solutions that keep commerce flowing despite physical restrictions, and data-driven insights that help firms pivot rapidly in response to shifting market conditions. The pandemic years provided the starkest illustration of this duality: while digital dependence deepened inequalities for the digitally excluded, it also became the lifeline through which millions of businesses, from informal traders to global giants, survived systemic shock. Against this backdrop, the concept of entrepreneurial resilience has become more than a buzzword; it is a strategic imperative. Resilience in the digital economy is not simply about survival but about the capacity to adapt, reorganize, and exploit disruption as a catalyst for innovation. It determines whether an enterprise collapses under pressure or emerges stronger, often transformed, with new business models and competitive advantages. Understanding resilience in this domain is therefore crucial not only for entrepreneurs navigating hostile environments but also for policymakers, investors, and ecosystem actors tasked with building sustainable economic systems. This study situates entrepreneurial resilience within the realities of the digital economy, examining how ventures leverage digital infrastructures to absorb shocks, pivot operations and reconfigure value creation. Description: Review Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/31278 2025-08-03T00:00:00Z http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/31277 Title: GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES Authors: DAUDA, Abdulwaheed; Daniya, A.A; Yakubu, M.M Abstract: Financial crises are among the most disruptive events in the global economy, capable of destabilizing markets, eroding wealth, and reshaping political and institutional landscapes. They occur when vulnerabilities in financial systems, economic structures, or external environments interact with policy failures or speculative behavior to trigger widespread breakdowns in liquidity, solvency, and confidence. Though each crisis is shaped by its unique context, a common thread runs through the historical record: financial crises expose systemic weaknesses and compel a reassessment of the adequacy of policy frameworks at both national and international levels. The policy responses to financial crises have evolved over time, reflecting shifts in economic thought, institutional capacity, and political constraints. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the absence of robust safety nets and coherent monetary frameworks deepened the downturn and ushered in decades of institutional reform. The Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s underscored the vulnerabilities of external borrowing and the contentious role of international financial institutions. The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis highlighted the dangers of capital account liberalization without adequate regulatory buffers, while the 2008 global financial crisis revealed how deeply interconnected and fragile global markets had become. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic precipitated an unprecedented combination of health, social, and financial shocks, forcing governments and central banks into extraordinary interventions. Against this backdrop, four interrelated dimensions dominate the discourse on policy responses: the role of central banks in providing liquidity and stabilizing markets; the fiscal interventions of governments in supporting demand and protecting social welfare; the contribution of global financial governance institutions in coordinating and regulating cross-border flows; and the persistent controversies surrounding bailouts, moral hazard, and the doctrine of “too-big-to-fail.” Each dimension reflects not only technical economic considerations but also the broader political economy of legitimacy, fairness, and institutional trust. This chapter critically examines these responses and the lessons they offer. Description: Review Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/31277 2026-02-10T00:00:00Z http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17870 Title: A Handbook on Social Entrepreneurship and Non-Governmental Organizations with Case Studies Authors: Adeyeye, Mercy M.; Eniola, Anthony A. Abstract: This book is a compendium of social entrepreneurship and Non-Governmental Organizations with case studies. This book is a response to the lack of an academic book on Social entrepreneurship and Non-Governmental Organizations generally and in Africa particularly. It is an objective writing that is both expository and exploratory, informative and educative with twenty-six chapters. The first eight chapters focusses on the journey from the general entrepreneurship to social entrepreneurship by providing a general overview of the subject matter conceptually. The next two chapters were devoted to sustainable entrepreneurship and environmental entrepreneurship as related to social entrepreneurship whilst the eleventh chapter is on social business registration procedures. The next section is chapters twelve to eighteen presenting all that needs to be known about NGOs at this level, from history to classifications, characteristics and registration as well as for foundations. Chapters nineteen and twenty are devoted to social entrepreneurship in public sectors and the ways of introducing entrepreneurship into governmental Organizations. The models of entrepreneurship and various schools of thoughts are simplified with due consideration to social entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation in the subsequent chapters. Finally, the last two chapters are compilation of thirty-two case studies and practicing exercises to drive in the lessons into real life experiences. The book has the potential to benefit current practitioners, future social entrepreneurs, individuals, NGOS, public sectors and academics that are interested in the field of social entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the book will be suitable in developing the best possible curricula for educating students in NGOs and public sectors seeking to be entrepreneurial. Description: Epigraph “We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-for-profit, you must often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there’s opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes” - Bill Drayton (Ashoka Founder). “I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun” - Muhammad Yunus. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give” “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” – Winston Churchill. “Let us remember one book, our book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world” - Mukaila Yousafzai A COMPENDIUM OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NGOs Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://irepo.futminna.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17870 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z