Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy
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Mental health of hawkers during COVID-19: a marginal community in Bangladesh
Iqbal Hossain Moral, Md. Saidur Rahaman, Md. Shikh Imran, Md. Mizanur RahmanGlobally, the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the financial condition and the mental health of millions of workers from various informal sectors. This study aims to look into…
Enterprising tendency and entrepreneurial performance of indigenous Dayak women entrepreneurs in Sarawak, Malaysia
William Keling, Ching Seng Yap, Poh Ling HoThis study aims to examine entrepreneurial performance differences between indigenous Dayak women entrepreneurs of their high versus low enterprising tendency in Sarawak, Malaysia.
How online communities are important for rural entrepreneurial change – the library revolt
Josefina Jonsson, Johan GaddeforsThis study aims to discuss how an online community interacts with a local community during the entrepreneurial process. By having a contextualized view of…
The impact of COVID-19 on refugee women’s entrepreneurship in Jordan
Tala AbuhusseinThis study aims to extend the current debate on refugee entrepreneurship in Jordan. It empirically investigates the impact of COVID-19 on refugee women’s entrepreneurship…
ICT and the provision of social services in low-income countries: the moderating role of institutional quality
Olaniyi EvansThe purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of information and communications technology (ICT) on the provision of social services, as well as the moderating…
Let’s be entrepreneurs – Finnish youth’s attitudes toward entrepreneurship
Jouni Hintikka, Kyllikki Taipale-Erävala, Ulla Lehtinen, Leena EskolaThe purpose of the study is to clarify Finnish youth’s attitudes toward entrepreneurship and evaluate both regional and background factors influencing those attitudes.
Migration contexts in shaping community ethnic resources: a Forms of Capital approach on ethnic migrant entrepreneurs in Malaysia
Hamizah Abd Hamid, André M. EverettThis paper aims to refine the concept of community/ethnic resources for migrant communities by focusing on the way ethnic migrant entrepreneurs (EMEs) use co-ethnic-based…
Reducing barriers to female entrepreneurship in Oman: does family matter?
Fatma Abd El Basset, Robin Bell, Buthaina Al KharusiPrevious research has found that family characteristics, including family income, entrepreneurship/business experience and family size, can influence offspring’s…
Non-farm proprietorship employment by micropolitan county
Nichole M. Bignall, Keith G. DebbageSome US counties are more likely to generate entrepreneurial opportunities. This paper aims to determine whether US micropolitan counties with disproportionately high…
Ethnicity and entrepreneurial learning experiences as predictors of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and outcome expectations
Adeola Samuel Adebusuyi, Olubusayo Foluso AdebusuyiThe purpose of this study is to investigate the antecedents of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and entrepreneurial outcome expectations (EOE) using the distal parts of…
The role of traditional knowledge-based dynamic capabilities to improve the sustainable performance of weaving craft in Indonesia
Anggraeni Permatasari, Wawan Dhewanto, Dina DellyanaIndonesian woven craft small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have encountered several difficulties in sustaining their success in the digital era. The performance of…
Exploring the link between social work, entrepreneurial leadership, social embeddedness, social entrepreneurship and firm performance: a case of SMES owned by Chinese ethnic community in Turkey
Esra Sipahi Dongul, Erkin ArtantaşBackground: Both social work activities and social initiatives, innovative solutions today it has to support the development and change of the society by producing. The…
Youth entrepreneurial intentions: a cross-cultural comparison
Mehmet Bağış, Liridon Kryeziu, Mehmet Nurullah Kurutkan, Besnik A. Krasniqi, Joanna Hernik, Ensar Selman Karagüzel, Volkan Karaca, Çağdaş AteşThis paper aims to determine the antecedents that affect higher education students' entrepreneurial intention and awareness in two developing economies (Turkey and Poland…
Toward cooperative competitiveness for community development in Economic Society 5.0
Ratri Wahyuningtyas, Ganjar Disastra, Risris RismayaniEconomic Society 5.0 is the answer to the challenges of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 through the creation of new value from the development of advanced technology that…
Community engagement in development projects: government versus private funded projects in Ghana
Helen Arkorful, Sam Kris Hilton, Fred AwaahThe abandonment of governmental development projects either after completion or midway completion at the taxpayer’s expense in Ghana could be attributed to lack of…
Global research on community-based enterprise: a bibliometric portrait
Suchisweta Pradhan, Sasmita SamantaThe purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of scholarly literature on community-based enterprise (CBE) through a bibliometric analysis and to…
Government and innovation performance: evidence from the ICT enterprising community
Herolinda Murati-Leka, Besnik FetaiThe purpose of this paper will be on finding and analyzing the impact of government on the information and communication technology (ICT) companies’ innovation…
Beyond embedded or not embedded: immigrant entrepreneurs’ embeddedness levels
Uǧur Yetkin, Deniz TunçalpThis paper aims to review the immigrant entrepreneurship literature to locate how researchers consider embeddedness to home and host countries beyond the “embedded” or…
Exploring veteran entrepreneurship in Nigeria
Sanya OjoThis study aims to interrogate the nature and characteristics of military entrepreneurship among veterans of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
Iranian communities e-business challenges and value proposition design
Amir Emami, Elahe Farshad Bakhshayesh, Gadaf RexhepiThis paper aims to identify and examine the internal and external factors that e-business communities in Iran grapple with within value proposition design.
Strengthening business incubation practices among startup firms. Evidence from Ugandan communities
Bob Ssekiziyivu, Rogers Mwesigwa, Eunice Kabahinda, Sharon Lakareber, Florence NakajubiThe purpose of this paper is to provide the initial evidence on the role of business incubation (BI) in supporting startups and BI practices from developing communities in Uganda.
“Community and health-care service quality in Kosovo”: “a confirmatory analytical approach”
Myesere Avdyl HoxhaThe purpose of this paper is to develop and test a modified service quality (SERVQUAL) model scale for measuring healthcare service quality in Kosovo.
Education and enterprising profile of young community: evidence from a transition country
Vjollca Hasani, Jusuf Zeqiri, Kumrije Gagica, Kimberly Gleason, Sadudin IbraimiThis paper, in light of the theory of planned behavior, aims to analyze the factors that have an impact on entrepreneurial intentions among students in Kosovo.
Positionality of refugee business support and hospitality building under cognitive dissonance theory: an enterprising route of refugee entrepreneurship
Shuai QinFor the developed economies in Europe, to which refugees move, and as refugees’ enterprising expectations evolve, emerging cognitive factors have become closely…
Understanding the ease of doing agribusiness in emerging Asian economies: evidence from world enterprises survey
Waseem Khan, Trilok Pratap Singh, Mohammed JamshedThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of agribusiness firms in India, China and Pakistan, as well as the challenges they face in doing business.
The effects of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized enterprises: empirical evidence from Jordan
Tala Abuhussein, Husam Barham, Saheer Al-JaghoubThe ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in sudden changes in the macro environment and market behaviour, making most enterprises urgently…
Co-operative behavior of handicraft, low- and high-tech micro-firms: Where do they differ?
Mohsin Shafi, Yongzhong Yang, Zoya , Liu Junrong, Imran Ur Rahman, Hina FatimaThough certain characteristics of micro-firms affect the likelihood of their participation in external relationships, how cooperation in craft enterprises differs from low…
COVID-19 pandemic, a blessing or a curse for sales? A study of women entrepreneurs from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa community
Said Muhammad, Kong Ximei, Zahoor Ul Haq, Irshad Ali, Nicholas BeutellThe coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had profound economic effects, putting women entrepreneurs at considerable risk of losing income and sales growth as a result. This…
Determinants of the firm performance of returnee entrepreneurs in Somalia: the effects of external environmental conditions
Mohamed-Abdullahi Mohamed, Asmat-Nizam Abdul-Talib, AfifahAlwani RamleeThis study aims to examine the role of returning Somali diaspora entrepreneurs on firm performance and their perceived environmental obstacles.
Community and public-private partnership projects in Uganda: community engagement, trust and performance
Isaac Wanzige Magoola, Rogers Mwesigwa, Ruth NabwamiThe purpose of this paper is to provide the initial evidence of the relationship between the community and public-private partnership (PPP) projects by focusing on…
Digitalization and rural entrepreneurial attitude in Indonesia: a capability approach
Fikri Zul Fahmi, Medina SaviraThis paper aims to identify how digitalization affects entrepreneurial attitudes in rural areas in Indonesia, a country in the Global South. The development of digital…
Strategic guidelines for community enterprise development: a case in rural Thailand
Harry Jay M. Cavite, Chanhathai Kerdsriserm, Suneeporn SuwanmaneepongIn spite of the government’s support for small-scale rice farmers in rural areas of Thailand, several problems still affect their production and marketing performance…
Neo-liberalism translated into preconditions for women entrepreneurs – two contrasting cases
Malin Tillmar, Helene Ahl, Karin Berglund, Katarina PetterssonContrasting two countries with different gender regimes and welfare states, Sweden and Tanzania, this paper aims to analyse how the institutional context affects the ways…
Changing times and women on the wheels: a qualitative investigation of the experiences of female commercial drivers in Lagos State, Nigeria
Temitope Owolabi, Tunde A. Alabi, Sofiat A. Busari-AkinbodeThis study aims to investigate female commercial drivers in the Lagos metropolis. The study sought to know the circumstances that motivated women to venture into…
Expanding understanding of family social capital in crowdfunding of migrant entrepreneurial ventures
Nadia Arshad, Adele BerndtThe purpose of this study is to understand the role of the migrant entrepreneur’s social capital and specifically their family social capital in the success of their…
The business model canvas of women owned micro enterprises in the urban informal sector
Sujata MukherjeeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the motives and the business model canvas adopted by urban poor women to set up microenterprises in the informal sector.
Exploring the next generation socialisation to entrepreneurship in family businesses: insights from the Moroccan community
Widad Ibouder, Alain Jean-Claude Fayolle, Abdenbi LouitriIn Morocco, due to the high rate of failure in generational transfers, many family businesses are threatened with disappearance. This paper aims to focus on…
Exploring women entrepreneurs’ motivations and challenges from an institutional perspective: evidences from a patriarchal state in India
Swati Shastri, Shruti Shastri, Abhishek Pareek, Riddhi Sudhan SharmaThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the motivational drives of women entrepreneurs and highlight the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs operating micro, small and…
Empowerment of rural young people in informal farm entrepreneurship: the role of corporate social responsibility in Nigeria’s oil producing communities
Joseph Ikechukwu Uduji, Elda Nduka Okolo-ObasiThe purpose of this paper is to critically examine the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of multinational oil companies in Nigeria. Its main focus is to…
When the sense of place value is challenged by pandemic: value exchange in indigenous community-based tourism in Sade-Lombok, Indonesia
Cicilia Larasati Rembulan, Astrid KusumowidagdoThe purpose of this study is to investigate problems that emerged in indigenous community-based tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic, to identify the actors involved and…
Life of the Bangladeshi construction workers: an insight observation from the reality of the quality of an isolated community
Md. Saidur Rahaman, Md. Mizanur RahmanConstruction workers contribute significantly to the economic development of a country, but the working conditions and the living standard for construction workers in…
Exploring the perspectives of physically challenged women entrepreneurs in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, Ghana
Shaibu Bukari, Michael Ayikwei Quarshie, Felix Kwame OpokuEntrepreneurship and disability are discordant because of the assumption that the former is only meant for non-disabled people. Drawing on the capability, agency/structure…
Spirituality and entrepreneurship: integration of spiritual beliefs in an entrepreneurial journey
Sumayya Rashid, Vanessa RattenThe role of spirituality in entrepreneurship is a new area of inquiry that has emerged from different scholarly fields. There is no specific way to study spirituality as…
Enterprising profile and career development of Kuwaitiyouth community
Mohammad ZainalThe purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of entrepreneurial profile dimensions on the career development of the youth community in Kuwait. Further, this study…
From lifelong learning to later life self-employment: a conceptual framework and an Israeli enterprise perspective
Raphael Eppler-HattabThe purpose of this paper is to highlight important aspects of adopting a lifelong learning mindset as a way to improve entrepreneurial employability and self-employment…
Entrepreneurial behavior of family firms in the Indian community: adoption of a technology platform as a moderator
Sheshadri Chatterjee, Ranjan Chaudhuri, Demetris VrontisThis study aims to investigate the generalizability of Daniela Weismeier-Sammer’s (2011) replication study on entrepreneurial behavior and extended the model by…
Immigrant entrepreneurship motivation – scientific production, field development, thematic antecedents, measurement elements and research agenda
Carson Duan, Kamaljeet SandhuYears of research into immigrant entrepreneurship motivation (IEM) call for a synthesis of the field to note field developments and identify thematic antecedents and…
Career choice, growth and well-being of women entrepreneurs’ community: insights on driving factors in India
Jasmine Banu, Rupashree BaralThis paper aims to explore the entrepreneurial journey of select women entrepreneurs from South India to provide qualitative insights into the factors influencing their…
The role of entrepreneurial orientation in crisis management: evidence from family firms in enterprising communities
Börje Boers, Thomas HenschelThe purpose of this paper is to explore and understand how family firms manage a crisis by applying a processual and longitudinal perspective. The objective is to find out…
The gendered effects of entrepreneurialism in contrasting contexts
Malin Tillmar, Helene Ahl, Karin Berglund, Katarina PetterssonContrasting Sweden and Tanzania, this paper aims to explore the experiences of women entrepreneurs affected by entrepreneurialism. This study discusses the impact on their…
A retrospective overview of Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy from2007 to 2021 using abibliometric analysis
Meghna Chhabra, Léo‐Paul Dana, Veland Ramadani, Monika AgarwalThis paper aims to examine the pattern of publications, using a bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy…
Neo-rural small entrepreneurs’ motivations and challenges in Portugal’s low density regions
Ubyrajara Brasil Dal Bello, Carla Marques, Octávio Sacramento, Anderson GalvãoThis study sought to fill a gap in the literature by examining the dynamics of neo-rural small entrepreneurs’ business activities as little research has been done on these…
Entrepreneurship education in Post-Soviet states developing programmes for hospitality and tourism students in Samarkand
Leei John, Marc Robertson, Kate Tetley, Claire SeamanThis paper considers a country context where traditional entrepreneurship has not been a major part of the economy and considers current attempts to develop…
Intention of coastal communities to support climate change mitigation policies for fish and marine ecosystem preservation
Antonino Galati, Antonio Tulone, Demetris Vrontis, Alkis Thrassou, Maria CrescimannoThis paper aims to assess the willingness of individuals living in coastal communities affected by climate change to financially support mitigation policies towards the…
How do social responsibility and social entrepreneurship generate value creation in pandemics?
Rui Silva, Margarida Rodrigues, Mário Franco, Cidália Oliveira, Nuno SousaUsing self-determination theory and individual social responsibility’s (ISRs) association with pure social entrepreneurship, this study aims to answer the following…
The influence of institutional context on entrepreneurial intention: evidence from the Saudi young community
Wassim J. AloulouThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of how a country’s institutional environment is impacting the young community’s entrepreneurial…
Self-help group (SHG) production methods: insights from the union territory of Puducherry community
Siddhartha T., Nambirajan T., Ganeshkumar C.The purpose of this paper is to study the production methods and potential of self-help groups (SHGs) for linking to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in the…
Family across borders social capital and diaspora entrepreneurial preparedness
Eva Karayianni, Elias Hadjielias, Loukas GlyptisThe purpose of this paper is to study the way in which family ties influence the entrepreneurial preparedness of the diaspora family business owner.
Service innovation in the hotel industry: the dynamic capabilities view
Babak Ziyae, Hossein Sadeghi, Maryam GolmohammadiConsistent with the dynamic capabilities view tenets, this paper aims to conceptualize a theoretical framework of service innovation in the hotel industry.
Socio-cultural web and environmentally-driven community entrepreneurship: a portrayal of Abia Ohafia community in South-Eastern Nigeria
Ebere Ume Kalu, Leo-Paul DanaThis study is aimed at providing a deduction on the necessity of social and cultural capital for entrepreneurial outcomes on a community-wide scale.
Entrepreneurship, family and migration: a systematic literature review on Vietnamese migrant entrepreneurship
Anh Nguyen Quoc, Dai Nguyen Van, Nu Nguyet Anh NguyenThe purpose of this study is to systematically review the literature on the intersections among family, migration and entrepreneurship in the context of Vietnam. This…
Not without family: refugee family entrepreneurship and economic integration process
Khizran Zehra, Sadia UsmaniRefugee entrepreneurship is increasing because of the increased influx of refugees around the globe. This leaves us with the question that how refugees integrate…
Animating business relationships through community social capital: an insight into conviviality
Simone Guercini, Silvia RanfagniAs conviviality can nurture community social capital, this paper aims to investigate how such capital can give rise to economic behaviour in terms of developing business…
Examining network characteristic dynamics of kinship-based families on performance within Indonesian SMEs
Hardo Firmana Given Grace Manik, Nurul Indarti, Andy Susilo Lukito-BudiThis study aims to examine the moderating effect of firm age and size on the relationship between network characteristics (network centrality, network density and tie…
Social capital leading to innovation: understanding moderating effects of the environment in the Zimbabwean small and medium enterprise context
Boris Urban, Kudzanai MutendadzameraRealizing the value of social capital to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies, where relationship networks play a big role in filling the gaps that…
How kinship resources alleviate structural disadvantage: self-employment duration among refugees and labor migrants
Aliaksei Kazlou, Karl WennbergEconomic integration of refugees remains a challenge for developed countries. Although refugees differ greatly from labor migrants in available resources and motivation…
Does family involvement help small migrant businesses survive? A closer examination of family in migrant entrepreneurship
Zonghui Li, Douglas JohansenDrawing on the resource-based view, this study aims to examine how family involvement in migrant-founded small businesses gives rise to distinctive resources that help…
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- Prof Leo Dana
- Prof Robert Anderson
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