AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF CRITICAL BARRIERS PERSISTING IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEM IN ALGERIA

Abstract

Supporting Small Entrepreneurship represents, for both developed and developing Countries, the platform for economic growth and diversification, social progress and employment creation. In Algeria, the government grants a plurality of support and facilitations to investors, accentuated mainly on financial aids, tax exoneration and streamlining procedures. Despite all these dynamism and incentives, Algerian entrepreneurs seem to be still facing a constraining reality. This paper aims to investigate and understand the reality of the entrepreneurial context in a developing country, namely Algeria and identifies the entrepreneurship critical barriers (ECB) that still impede the entrepreneurs. To reach this goal, an in-depth literature review about the critical barriers have been presented. Then, this ECB list has been purified through a qualitative study, within an industrial company that has started its activity recently in food industry, in order to determine the most persistent critical barriers even though all the reforms. Based on the results of this study, this paper aims to come up with some recommendations that might encourage the small entrepreneurship creation process.