Necessity entrepreneurship : getting beyond the binary

Necessity entrepreneurship is broadly understood as the identifying and seizing of business opportunities to address basic needs such as food and shelter. This volume proposes new ways of seeing, theorizing, and researching necessity entrepreneurship.

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Other Authors Oliver, Amalya L. (Editor), Sydow, Jörg (Editor), Cohendet, Patrick (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 92.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781836089025
DOI10.1108/S0733-558X202592
Physical Description1 online resource (348 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From an orthodox to an emerging revisionist view of necessity entrepreneurship / Sophie Bacq, Katrin M. Smolka, Angelique F. Slade Shantz, and Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens
  • Section a. Towards a new heterodoxy in necessity entrepreneurship research
  • Chapter 1. Towards a shared agenda for necessity entrepreneurship research: Definitions, theories, and perspectives / Katrin M. Smolka, Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens, Sophie Bacq, and Angelique F. Slade Shantz
  • Section b. Necessity entrepreneurs' inhabited cognitive processes
  • Chapter 2. Stopping the slide and rising above the tide: Entrepreneurial education to move out of necessity into opportunity / Saras D. Sarasvathy and Maelle A. Perez
  • Chapter 3. Towards a strengths-based view of necessity entrepreneurship / Ketan M. Goswami
  • Section c. Poverty and informality perspectives on necessity entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 4. Necessity entrepreneurship as a misnomer: Lessons learned from working with poverty entrepreneurs / Michael H. Morris and Susana C. Santos
  • Chapter 5. Constellations in the galaxy: Ethnic enclave membership and venture behavior among necessity entrepreneurs in a South African township informal economy / Mohammed Bendaanane, Siddharth Vedula, Robert Nason, and Andrew Charman
  • Section d. Institutional views on necessity entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 6. Health provider or debt collector? The unintended consequences of integrating income-generating activities with community health interventions in Kenya / Kenneth Ngari Ogendo, Emily Block, Andrea Caldwell Marquez, and Bertha Ochieng
  • Chapter 7. Navigating intersectional inequalities: Resource assemblage for firm profits / Kylie Heales, Charlene Zietsma, and Luciano Barin Cruz
  • Section e. Methods around necessity entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 8. Measuring necessity entrepreneurship: Challenges and implications / Chad D. Coffman, Sanwar A. Sunny, and Griffin W. Cottle
  • Chapter 9. Quantitative methods in the field of necessity entrepreneurship / Laura Rosendahl Huber and Caroline Witte
  • Chapter 10. From the ground up: Unpacking the visual representation of necessity entrepreneurship / Bernadetta A. Ginting-Szczesny
  • Chapter 11. Moving beyond 'jump in, jump out' interviewing: Using more complex qualitative methodologies to build deeper theory in the global south / Patrick Shulist.