Reciprocated community support and small town - small business success

Kilkenny, Maureen; Nalbarte, Laura; Besser, Terry L.

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“…Kilkenny et al (1999) established that communities will reciprocate. That is, members of a community will extend customer loyalty to a business that they perceive is contributing to their community.…”

Section: Depleted Communities and Community Business Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Depleted communities and community business entrepreneurship: revaluing space through place

Johnstone¹,

Lionais

2004

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Depleted communities are a persistent feature of late capitalism. They can be seen as areas that have lost much of their economic rationale as space, while retaining high attachments and social relations of place. While conditions in depleted communities can limit possibilities for traditional development, entrepreneurial responses are not similarly constrained. It is argued here that depleted communities can act as hosts to a unique form of enterprise that combines good business practices with community goals. We refer to this as community business entrepreneurship and argue that it is similar to, but distinct from, the traditional entrepreneurial process. To illustrate these ideas three cases are examined. Within the setting of the depleted community, the entrepreneurial process can be modified to pursue community goals, thereby creating new opportunities and making new forms of development possible.

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Section: Depleted Communities and Community Business Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Depleted communities and community business entrepreneurship: revaluing space through place

Johnstone¹,

Lionais

2004

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“…We adopt a common geographic definition of a community and define the community as a proximal spatial area which is smaller than a state or county. A community captures an area such as a small town, a village, a collection of small villages, or a greater neighborhood within a larger city (see for instance Kilkenny et al, 1999 for a similar definition). This concentration on a community perspective can usefully complement past research, which has focused on the national context (e.g.…”

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The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs: Community culture, motivation, self-efficacy and start-up success

Hopp

Stephan

2012

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Mushroom Lane, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom +44 (0)114.222 32 86 u.stephan@sheffield.ac.uk *Both authors contributed equally to this manuscript and are listed in alphabetical order. Acknowledgements:We thank Ian Macdonald and Tomasz Mickiewicz for valuable comments. All errors remain our own. AbstractThe importance of informal institutions and in particular culture for entrepreneurship is a subject of ongoing interest. Past research has mostly concentrated on cross-national comparisons, cultural values, and the direct effects of culture on entrepreneurial behavior, but in the main found inconsistent results. The present research adds a fresh perspective to this research stream by turning attention to community-level culture and cultural norms. We hypothesize indirect effects of cultural norms on venture emergence. Specifically that community-level cultural norms (performance-based culture and socially-supportive institutional norms) impact important supply-side variables (entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial motivation) which in turn influence nascent entrepreneurs' success in creating operational ventures (venture emergence). We test our predictions on a unique longitudinal data set tracking nascent entrepreneurs venture creation efforts over a 5 year time span and find evidence supporting them. Our research contributes to a more fine-grained understanding of how culture, in particular perceptions of community cultural norms, influences venture emergence. Based on these findings we discuss how venture creation efforts can be supported.Our research highlights the embeddedness of entrepreneurial behavior and its immediate antecedent beliefs in the local, community context.

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“…Immigrant entrepreneurship whereas simultaneously, in the rural entrepreneurship literature, immigrants as entrepreneurial actors are rarely addressed (Borch and Førde, 2010;Spilling, 2011;Kilkenny et al, 1999). My data suggest that these literature works would benefit from a dialogue, and that place embeddedness in terms of a wish to contribute to local place development may also be a relevant dimension in the conceptualisation of immigrant entrepreneurship.…”

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Immigrant entrepreneurship contextualised

Munkejord

2017

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Reciprocated community support and small town - small business success

Cited by 102 publications

References 16 publications

Depleted communities and community business entrepreneurship: revaluing space through place

Depleted communities and community business entrepreneurship: revaluing space through place

The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs: Community culture, motivation, self-efficacy and start-up success

Immigrant entrepreneurship contextualised

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