Entrepreneurship as a community phenomenon; reconnecting meanings and place

Anderson, Alistair R.; Gaddefors, Johan

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2016.077576

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“…Other studies of entrepreneurship in depleted places have not demonstrated this social disapproval of how entrepreneurship was achieved (Anderson and Gaddefors ; Korsgaard, Ferguson, and Gaddefors ; McKeever, Jack, and Anderson ). However, these studies do show a greater extent of social involvement in small business practices.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…We argue that identity and place intertwine in the experience of belonging (Shepherd and Haynie ), but are not always in harmony. Entrepreneurial identity is earned through actions, performance, but the sense of belonging is created through cultural, social constructions along with local interactions, personal experiences, and individual beliefs (Anderson and Gaddefors ). Consequently, places are where identity is enacted, but also where entrepreneurs are socially situated; where they “belong.” The interplay between different formations of identity should be conceptually informative.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Identity, Enactment, and Entrepreneurship Engagement in a Declining Place

Anderson

Warren

Bensemann

2018

Journal of Small Business Management

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We examine entrepreneurship practice and identity work in a rural small town in New Zealand. Once prosperous, the town suffered economically and socially as old industries closed. Recently the town was rejuvenated, largely because of Linda's entrepreneurial activities. Our findings demonstrated conflict between her entrepreneurial identity and local sense of place. We theorize Linda's entrepreneurial identity in her business practice; where she experienced controversy, despite economic success. We argue that a complete understanding of identity and entrepreneurship practices requires attention to social and spatial processes, not just economic processes.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Identity, Enactment, and Entrepreneurship Engagement in a Declining Place

Anderson

Warren

Bensemann

2018

Journal of Small Business Management

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“…Chalmers and Shaw (2017) explain that understanding of context is largely shaped by the ontological and epistemological stances assumed by researcher. Given our argument that rural engagement captures practice, and engagement can be with the imagined as well as the 'material' (Anderson and Gaddefors, 2016), the ontological assumptions of positivism seem poorly equipped (Leitch et al, 2010) to deal with intangible social constructions (Jennings et al, 2005). The empirical manifestations of social constructions may be elusive, albeit experienced as very real.…”

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“…Consequently, entrepreneuring is 'protean' in form, it takes shape from the context. Moreover, in a recent, but provocatively extreme case, Gaddefors and Anderson (2016) showed how a rural context created entrepreneurship. Thus, we acknowledge that enterprise takes many forms, that it arises within different contexts; however, we are very cautious about conflating context with form.…”

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Romancing the rural: Reconceptualizing rural entrepreneurship as engagement with context(s)

Gaddefors

Anderson

2018

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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This article considers how we conceive and research rural entrepreneurship. While we argue for the importance of context for understanding entrepreneuring, we also acknowledge that some perceptions of the rural context may be misleading. We critically review how the rural in rural entrepreneurship has been applied. We find how some romancing of the rural has had detrimental effects in theorizing about rural. However, we also find and discuss the interesting range of relationships between the rural and the entrepreneurship presented in the literature. We conclude that a conceptually robust approach can be achieved by examining the nature and extent of entrepreneurial engagement with the contexts that characterize the rural. Finally, we propose methods that will enable us to achieve better understanding of the processes of rural.

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“…Social entrepreneurship is seen frequently as a socialized and community phenomenon. Social entrepreneurs are often prone to identify and accept their proactive role in the local community, to feel a sense of attachment and belonging to this place where they one used to be with and now want to be members of [14]. Social entrepreneurship is expressed by conscious willingness and readiness to help the local society, to be focused on social and environmental implications of business decisions, operations and activities [15].…”

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Strategic Dimension of Social Entrepreneurship in Vietnam

Tien¹,

Hưng²,

Duc³

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IJTEF

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This article delivers a full insight into the concepts of social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, their sustainability issues and strategic understanding. Despite different nature, determinant factors, motivation and purpose, as well as orientation towards sustainable development of commercial and social enterprises the results of analysis show that both form of extant entrepreneurship could to stay together to successfully bridge, create synergy effect between social and commercial capital for the mutual development. However, the article revealed that in contrast to the commercial entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship currently lacks and needs more strategic understanding (and its reflection in the reality) to be benefitted from in order to support overall sustainable entrepreneurship development in rural areas of Vietnam. Finally, the article proposed solutions to enhance social entrepreneurship and promote its expansion for the purpose of sustainable development.

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Entrepreneurship as a community phenomenon; reconnecting meanings and place

Cited by 69 publications

References 34 publications

Identity, Enactment, and Entrepreneurship Engagement in a Declining Place

Identity, Enactment, and Entrepreneurship Engagement in a Declining Place

Romancing the rural: Reconceptualizing rural entrepreneurship as engagement with context(s)

Strategic Dimension of Social Entrepreneurship in Vietnam

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