The mission of the Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (SAJESBM) is to publish empirical and theoretical contributions in the form of fieldwork, laboratory, case-studies, qualitative, quantitative, or conceptual papers. The significance of the findings is applied as relevant and functional in the entrepreneurial and management fields. It is envisaged that the SAJESBM will serve as a platform in which information central to the concerns of practitioners and academics is presented. In this way research not only grows out of the concerns of practitioners, but simultaneously shapes theories for future practice.