Growth in mobile phone penetration is one of the most significant
technological developments in human history, spurring a number of
innovations and entrepreneurial opportunities. Among these is the
conduct of monetary transactions via the mobile phone, which promises to
revolutionise access to financial services and opportunities for business
and entrepreneurship in developing countries. However, whereas mobile
banking via M-Pesa has revolutionised financial services and access in

This article introduces the special issue to the Inaugural Conference on
Business and Management hosted by the Mona School of Business and
Management in 2015. It pulls together the main findings, arguments and
perspectives of those papers that were most closely aligned with the theme
of the conference. In so doing, it focuses on the challenges to increasing
entrepreneurship, enterprise, competitiveness and growth in Small Island
Developing States (SIDS), such as those in the Caribbean, and the strategies