Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy: Volume 11 Issue 1

Entrepreneurship and resilient communities – introduction to the special issue

Rod B. McNaughton, Brendan Gray

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on links between entrepreneurship and resilience.

Indigenous entrepreneurship in Aotearoa New Zealand: The takarangi framework of resilience and innovation

Merata Kawharu, Paul Tapsell, Christine Woods

Exploring the links between resilience, sustainability and entrepreneurship from an indigenous perspective means exploring the historic and socio-cultural context out of which a…

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?: Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship and resilience among the Boruca Indians of Costa Rica

Cecilia McInnis-Bowers, Denise Linda Parris, Bella L. Galperin

This paper aims to explore the relationship between entrepreneurship and resilience in an indigenous context. The overarching research questions are: What are the mechanisms that…

Community resilience through entrepreneurship: the role of gender

Fiona Eva Bakas

This paper aims to contribute to entrepreneurship theorising by highlighting the salience of feminine caring positions in creating novel entrepreneurial roles and investigating…

Conceptualizing virtual communities as enablers of community-based entrepreneurship and resilience

K. Sankaran, Catherine Demangeot

This paper aims to demonstrate the potential of virtual communities in enabling community-based entrepreneurship and resilience. Resilience is an important attribute for a…

The role of social entrepreneurs in developing community resilience in remote areas

Caroline Morrison, Elaine Ramsey, Derek Bond

The purpose of this paper is to understand the processes whereby social entrepreneurs can contribute to community resilience and sustainability.

Place-based business models for resilient local economies: Cases from Italian slow food, agritourism and the albergo diffuso

Dante Di Gregorio

This purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the concept of place-based business models, by which entrepreneurs use highly context-specific strategies and linkages to a…

An ecopreneur’s growing resilience after a series of earthquakes

Jodyanne Kirkwood, Kirsty Dwyer, Sara Walton

This paper aims to examine the experiences of an ecopreneurial venture that was operating before, during and after the 2010-2011 series of earthquakes in Christchurch, New…

Social enterprise, sustainability and community in post-earthquake Christchurch: Exploring the role of local food systems in building resilience

Tracy Berno

Since 4 September 2010, the greater Christchurch region has endured a series of destructive earthquakes. As a result, food resilience, as a component of community resilience, has…

Community resilience to natural disasters: the role of disaster entrepreneurship

Martina K. Linnenluecke, Brent McKnight

The paper aims to examine the conditions under which disaster entrepreneurship contributes to community-level resilience. The authors define disaster entrepreneurship as attempts…

The resilience strategies of SMEs in mature clusters

Elisa Conz, Stefano Denicolai, Antonella Zucchella

The purpose of this paper, according to the evolutionary perspective of resilience, is to provide a revised adaptive cycle model that explains how organisations that are embedded…