Robert Smith
Observing community-based entrepreneurship and social networking at play in an urban village setting.
Smith, Robert
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Abstract
Entrepreneurship as a manifestation of change is vital in terms of jobs and business dynamism. However, entrepreneurship as a social activity occurs in time and space and is seen as a natural, organic process. We assume this change will occur naturally, but this can be interrupted by planned change. This observational study examines the influence of socio-cultural factors on the evolution of community-based entrepreneurial activity in an urban village setting using the social metrics of home, habitus and habituation to examine how this activity develops within a planned monocultural middle class enclave. Studying social entrepreneurship in a fixed social setting permits us to investigate the embededdness of the entrepreneurial process in a naturally occurring environment. When the natural order is interrupted, entrepreneurial activity becomes disjointed and finds new avenues of emergence as community-based entrepreneurial activity in which business is facilitated by social networking and entrepreneurial identity is socially constructed through play.
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SMITH, R. 2011. Observing community-based entrepreneurship and social networking at play in an urban village setting. International journal of entrepreneurship and small business [online], 12(1), pages 62-81. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2011.037340
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 31, 2011 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 31, 2011 |
Publication Date | Mar 31, 2011 |
Deposit Date | Nov 30, 2011 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | International journal of entrepreneurship and small business |
Print ISSN | 1476-1297 |
Electronic ISSN | 1741-8054 |
Publisher | Inderscience |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 62-81 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2011.037340 |
Keywords | Economic sociology; Economic geography; Social entrepreneurship; Social networking; Community based entrepreneurship; Urban villages; Planned change; Jobs; Employment; Business dynamism; Cities; Social activities; Natural processes; Organic processes; Soc |
Public URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/689 |
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