Solving African mining industry puzzle through the lens of entrepreneurial harm

This research project sought to establish a comprehensive understanding of entrepreneurial harm through synthesising existing knowledge on it, theoretically evaluate the emergence of a violent form of harmful entrepreneurial behaviour and examine its interactions with emerging productive entrepreneurial behaviour in an industry. These objectives were achieved using an integrative literature review with data from thirty-three (33) years of published literature, a qualitative process study using press articles, interviews and industry data for 10 years and a fractional panel regression analysis, using over fifty-five thousand (55,000) mining license entries, satellite and press data as well as curated data on conflict events. The results offer profound contributions on the nature, evolution and results of entrepreneurial harm in a mining industry.