The process consisted of recruiting and launching entrepreneurial teams of trained engineers and technicians who began organizing industrial cooperatives throughout the countryside. SIAKA MOMOH Cooperatives play a distinct role in motivating and enabling entrepreneurship at the grassroots. Therefore, in spite of the setbacks that cooperatives entrepreneurship has suffered in the past, they should be made to function in the economy.
It is pertinent therefore, to showcase experiences of cooperative entrepreneurship from outside our shores, which Nigerians, who by nature are very entrepreneurial, can leverage on. What more is there to prove this when our workplaces are strewn with cooperatives engagements. Go to the schools, ministries, parastatals, and the private sector of course, you will get the message.
First, let us look at excerpt from Gary B. Hansen, ‘Using “Cooperative Entrepreneurship” to Generate Employment and Income in Developing Countries and Eastern Europe’. Hansen’s work is the Chinese Gung Ho, which, according to him, is the prototype of organizations needed to institutionalize entrepreneurship to create jobs and stimulate economic development.
Gung Ho means “working together” in Chinese – a cooperative movement conceived by Helen Foster Snow, the first wife of American journalist Edgar Snow, and developed and implemented by the two Snows, New Zealander Rewi Alley and their Chinese associates in war-torn China in 1938. According to Hansen, respon.