Observing community-based entrepreneurship and social networking at play in an urban village setting.

Smith, Robert

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.

Citation

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
• Acceptance Date: Mar 31, 2011
• Online Publication Date: Mar 31, 2011
• Publication Date: Mar 31, 2011
• Deposit Date: Nov 30, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 30, 2011
• 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