Contributed by business, management, entrepreneurship, and other researchers from Europe and Malaysia, the 10 chapters in this volume consider the relationship between disadvantage and entrepreneurship using an entrepreneurial ecosystem approach that emphasizes the role of entrepreneurs and the broader social contexts that enable their actions and the factors needed to create and sustain high-growth entrepreneurship within regions. They examine how different groups of disadvantaged people in different spatial contexts, including Latin America, Sierra Leone, Malaysia, and Europe, engage in entrepreneurship and build relationships and networks to support their activities, exploring the background contexts driving these groups towards entrepreneurial activity; the role of human capital and intersectional factors like gender, migrant status, and location; and the roles of activities and stakeholders in assisting disadvantaged entrepreneurs. They explore the motivations of those engaged in enterprise and experiencing poverty in the UK; the influence of human capital in driving entrepreneurial intentions in deprived areas; women's disadvantages in Latin American entrepreneurial ecosystems; the disadvantages of female migrant entrepreneurs, focusing on Finland; how refugee entrepreneurs navigate institutional voids in Malaysia; the relational dynamics within refugee business incubators; the role of civil society organizations in Sierra Leone petty trading; and the ecosystem of UK social entrepreneurship. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Entrepreneurial ecosystems constructed by disadvantaged entrepreneurs often exist beside, within, and in opposition to 'mainstream' ecosystems focused on high growth high technology entrepreneurial ventures.
Disadvantaged Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem addresses the lack of current research concerning disadvantage using an entrepreneurial ecosystem lens, and the failure of entrepreneurship policy to widen engagement in entrepreneurship for disadvantaged people and places. Drawing together issues affecting disadvantaged entrepreneurs as they struggle to access, interact with, and benefit from, the traditional entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE), these findings highlight the importance of their motives for entrepreneurial activity, their resources, and how access to these are affected by issues such as gender and migrant status.
The research in this book also suggests policymakers need targeted, supportive, business-support programs taking into consideration the multiple challenges disadvantaged entrepreneurs typically face.
This book addresses the lack of current research concerning disadvantage using an entrepreneurial ecosystem lens, and the failure of entrepreneurship policy to widen engagement in entrepreneurship for disadvantaged people and places.
