ISBN : 9782897991685
Year of publication : 2022
Nombre de pages : 74
Langue : Anglais#French</trp-gettext#!trpEnglish#
This first barometer of management practices in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Cameroon is the fruit of collaboration between the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) in Canada and the Agence de Promotion des PME (APME) in Cameroon. Its objective is to present an annual socio-demographic profile and characteristics of manufacturing SMEs, as well as to evaluate the management practices used or adopted by these SMEs. Lastly, it annually measures SME owner-managers' perceptions of financing and the main obstacles to their development.
The first chapter introduces APME, followed by the second, which summarizes the context of the study. The third chapter deals with the methodological approach adopted for the study, while the fourth briefly reviews the current state of the manufacturing sector in Cameroon. The fifth chapter presents the socio-demographic profile of owner-managers and the profile of SMEs included in this first barometer. Finally, the sixth and last chapter presents the main findings concerning
management practices used in Cameroonian SMEs, and owner-managers' perceptions of financing and the main obstacles to their development. The book concludes with a series of recommendations for the adoption of management practices.
This book is therefore aimed at anyone interested in the issues of SME performance and competitiveness, and in particular at all players in the entrepreneurial and SME ecosystem in Cameroon and Africa: entrepreneurs, SME managers, financial institutions, public and private organizations supporting entrepreneurship and SMEs, researchers, consultants and students, etc.
With a degree in economics and statistics from the University of Yaoundé (Cameroon), Mr. Jean-Marie Louis Badga is a specialist in project analysis and evaluation with a diploma from the Institut Sous-régional Multisectoriel de Technologie Appliquée de Planification et d'Évaluation de projet (ISTA). He has a rich professional career spanning over 35 years dedicated to promoting the Cameroonian economy. Since 2015, he has held the position of Managing Director of Cameroon's SME Promotion Agency (APME). An expert in SME creation and development, Mr. BADGA has held the positions of Deputy Director and Director of SMEs at the Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts (MINPMEESA).
Professor of Finance and Director of the Department of Finance and Economics at the School of Management of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Mr. Théophile Serge Nomo holds a Ph. Théophile Serge Nomo holds a doctorate in administration from the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada); a chartered accountant diploma, CPA, CGA from the Ordre des CPA du Québec; a post-graduate diploma (DEPA) in financial institutions; and a post-graduate diploma in commerce (D.E.S.C.) in finance and accounting from the École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) in Douala (Cameroon). He is co-founder and co-director of the Laboratoire de recherche et intervention sur le développement de l'entreprise dans les pays en développement (LARIDEPED) at the École de gestion de l'UQTR. Mr. Nomo is currently the academic coordinator of scientific cooperation agreements between UQTR and Cameroon's Agence de Promotion des PME (APME), Senegal's Agence de Développement et d'Encadrement des PME (ADEPME) and the Agence Côte d'Ivoire PME. He is also the founder of the new PME AFRIQUE platform, which aims to boost the competitiveness of SMEs in Africa. Mr. NOMO regularly acts as an expert in setting up labelling and scoring systems for SMEs in certain African countries. For several years, he was director of the diagnostic and restructuring program for manufacturing SMEs in Cameroon. His research work and publications in scientific journals focus on entrepreneurial and corporate finance, venture capital, performance and risk management, and financial accounting.
