TY - BOOK AU - Dama Dié,Marcel TI - Entrepreneurs’ Characteristics and the Failure of Businesses in the Book Trade in Cameroon PY - 2016///. N1 - 84 N2 - This paper analyzes how entrepreneurs’ characteristics impact the failure of companies in the book trade. After reviewing the types of entrepreneurs, the use of a logistic regression provided a failure rate of about 65.51%; which is otherwise explained by the following key factors: a profile relating to the field of employment, a higher level of education, less than five years’ experience in business management, and choosing to operate officially increase the risk of failure. On the other hand, a level of primary or secondary school education, more than 5 years’ experience, and choosing to operate informally reduce the probability of failure. Managerial capacity-building policies need to be conducted to further reduce this rate: an awareness of the adoption of product development policies and a mastering of their dissemination is required, as is the setting up of a favorable legal framework for the emergence of a book industry UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-review-of-entrepreneurship-2016-3-page-283?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -