Socio-cultural web and environmentally-driven community entrepreneurship: a portrayal of Abia Ohafia community in South-Eastern Nigeria
Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy
ISSN: 1750-6204
Article publication date: 8 March 2021
Issue publication date: 1 August 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study is aimed at providing a deduction on the necessity of social and cultural capital for entrepreneurial outcomes on a community-wide scale.
Design/methodology/approach
There is a drift from an individualised form of entrepreneurship to community-based entrepreneurship with a grand focus on social needs of current and emergent nature. This study is both archival and exploratory and has pictured culture and communality as drivers that are needful for enterprising communities.
Findings
This paper finds communality, social network, social capital and trust as push-factors for community-based entrepreneurship and development drives.
Originality/value
This study is an original exposé on the Abia Ohafia community’s Model of community-based entrepreneurship which thrives on strong institutions (like the Age Grade System) and age-long practices that have built trust and stability. This local community through its networks, culture and communalities creates relationships, rational innovation, consensual leadership and participatory followership under which resources, opportunities and solutions are deliberately advanced for meeting social and community purposes.
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Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge all the indigenes of the Abia Ohafia Community who assisted with some parts of the Oral Literature and History of this intriguing community.
The authors also acknowledge and thank the photographers who provided them pictorial evidence in this study. Thanks also to people whose images appear in this work, if your image looks real, it is not for any commercial purpose rather it is for academic purpose and the enrichment of the society’s knowledge bank for use by both the contemporary and future generation.
The authors take responsibility for any error or omission and declare that this study is purely academic and has no political undertone.
Citation
Kalu, E.U. and Dana, L.-P. (2022), "Socio-cultural web and environmentally-driven community entrepreneurship: a portrayal of Abia Ohafia community in South-Eastern Nigeria", Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 540-561. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-12-2020-0211
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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