Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy: Volume 16 Issue 4

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 Union…

Socio-cultural web and environmentally-driven community entrepreneurship: a portrayal of Abia Ohafia community in South-Eastern Nigeria

Ebere Ume Kalu, Leo-Paul Dana

This study is aimed at providing a deduction on the necessity of social and cultural capital for entrepreneurial outcomes on a community-wide scale.

Animating business relationships through community social capital: an insight into conviviality

Simone Guercini, Silvia Ranfagni

As 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…

Service innovation in the hotel industry: the dynamic capabilities view

Babak Ziyae, Hossein Sadeghi, Maryam Golmohammadi

Consistent with the dynamic capabilities view tenets, this paper aims to conceptualize a theoretical framework of service innovation in the hotel industry.

Neo-liberalism translated into preconditions for women entrepreneurs – two contrasting cases

Malin Tillmar, Helene Ahl, Karin Berglund, Katarina Pettersson

Contrasting two countries with different gender regimes and welfare states, Sweden and Tanzania, this paper aims to analyse how the institutional context affects the ways in which…

Social capital leading to innovation: understanding moderating effects of the environment in the Zimbabwean small and medium enterprise context

Boris Urban, Kudzanai Mutendadzamera

Realizing 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 are left…

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 Sharma

The 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 medium…