Researching entrepreneurship in low-income settlements: the strengths and challenges of participatory methods

Gough, Katherine V.; Langevang, Thilde; Namatovu, Rebecca

doi:10.1177/0956247813512250

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“…Participatory workshops as a method acknowledge and harness the reflexive capacity of participants, and the role of dialogue in generating and sharing information (Kindon et al, , p. 13). Creating small subgroups of four to five participants helped mitigate common problems affecting group discussions, such as peer pressure and unequal participation (Gough et al, , p. 303). Participants discussed the themes in their own language and presented the results of their discussions on flipcharts at various stages (interpreters translated when required).…”

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Building relationships and negotiating difference in international development volunteerism

Schech

Skelton

Mundkur

2016

Geographical Journal

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There is growing recognition that building relationships is central to creating sustainable partnerships to achieve meaningful development outcomes. International development volunteers, embedded in the community where they are volunteering, are seen as being ideally placed to build and facilitate these relationships. The nature of international development volunteerism requires both volunteers and host organisations to negotiate through and across cultural difference in order to build mutually beneficial relationships. Three discourses – partnership, globalisation, and everyday encounters with a different culture – frame our analysis of the effort required for effective relationship building. We explore how host organisations and volunteers negotiate difference to build trust and mutual respect as they navigate everyday exchanges and reconcile different expectations and outcomes of volunteerism.

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Building relationships and negotiating difference in international development volunteerism

Schech

Skelton

Mundkur

2016

Geographical Journal

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“…First, the survey did not cover all aspects related to formalization so that qualitative interviews provided complementary information. Second, the survey was formulated by European researchers, who might not know what actually matters for entrepreneurs in Mozambique (Gough et al 2014). Thus, more open conversations, in which interviewees contributed their own opinions on the topic, gave invaluable insights.…”

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The costs and benefits of formalization for firms: A mixed-methods study on Mozambique

Berkel¹

2018

WIDER Working Paper

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provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable development. The Institute began operations in 1985 in Helsinki, Finland, as the first research and training centre of the United Nations University. Today it is a unique blend of think tank, research institute, and UN agency-providing a range of services from policy advice to governments as well as freely available original research. The Institute is funded through income from an endowment fund with additional contributions to its work programme from Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom as well as earmarked contributions for specific projects from a variety of donors.

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“…Although there are some limitations associated with using a standard questionnaire designed in a Global North context (see Gough, Langevang, and Namatovu ), the GEM data provide the possibility for the first time to examine overall patterns of female entrepreneurship in Ghana. In order to place the characteristics of female entrepreneurs in Ghana in a broader context, we draw on the 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Women's Report, which examined women's entrepreneurial attitudes, activities, and aspirations across all the GEM participating countries (Kelley et al ).…”

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Bounded Entrepreneurial Vitality: The Mixed Embeddedness of Female Entrepreneurship

Langevang

Gough²,

Yankson

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Economic Geography

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Despite the recent increased interest in female entrepreneurs, attention has tended to focus on dynamic individuals and generic incentives without considering the roles of gender and place in entrepreneurship. In this article, we draw on the notion of mixed embeddedness to explore how time‐and‐place–specific institutional contexts influence women's entrepreneurship. Drawing on primary data collected in Ghana, where exceptionally more women engage in entrepreneurial activities than men, we examine the scale and characteristics of female entrepreneurial activity, exploring the factors that account for this strong participation of women, and examine whether this high entrepreneurial rate is also reflected in their performance and growth aspirations. The findings reveal a disjuncture between, on the one hand, the vibrant entrepreneurial endeavors of Ghanaian women and positive societal attitudes toward female entrepreneurship and, on the other hand, female business activities characterized by vulnerability and relatively low achievement. The article shows how regulatory, normative, and cultural–cognitive institutional forces, which have been transformed over time by local and global processes and their interaction, are concomitantly propelling and impeding women's entrepreneurial activities. We propose that the study of female entrepreneurs within economic geography could be advanced by analyzing the differing effects of the complex, multiple, and shifting layers of institutional contexts in which they are embedded.

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Researching entrepreneurship in low-income settlements: the strengths and challenges of participatory methods

Cited by 17 publications

References 37 publications

Building relationships and negotiating difference in international development volunteerism

Building relationships and negotiating difference in international development volunteerism

The costs and benefits of formalization for firms: A mixed-methods study on Mozambique

Bounded Entrepreneurial Vitality: The Mixed Embeddedness of Female Entrepreneurship

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