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Poverty, Disadvantage, and the Promise of Enterprise
A Capabilities Perspective
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Poverty, Disadvantage, and the Promise of Enterprise
A Capabilities Perspective
About this book
Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enhance their lives? Poverty, Disadvantage and the Promise of Enterprise: A Capabilities Perspective argue that "it depends". To understand the poverty and entrepreneurship interface, we must first understand poverty. Using a lens of disadvantage theory and the capabilities framework, the book explores the implications of poverty's complex, multi-dimensional nature when one is trying to start and grow a business. Four key liabilities directly impact the opportunities these individuals are able to recognize, the types of ventures they create, how the businesses perform, and the impacts on the well-being of the entrepreneur. Because of these liabilities, these ventures tend to fall into what the authors call the commodity trap, where they struggle with low sales volumes and marginal profits. However, the trap is avoidable, and, with the right kinds of support, the performance of these ventures can be meaningfully improved. Key design elements of a successful intervention approach, together with an alternative perspective on the roles of community-based entrepreneurial ecosystems and public policy, are introduced. Emphasis is also placed on the critical roles of faith, hustle, and the fears of both failure and success.
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Yes, you can access Poverty, Disadvantage, and the Promise of Enterprise by Michael H. Morris,Susana C. Santos in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Entrepreneurship. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Entrepreneurship as Human Empowerment
- Chapter One: The Promise of Entrepreneurship: An IHD Perspective
- Chapter Two: Disadvantage, Capabilities, and Entrepreneurship
- Chapter Three: Types of Ventures and the Poverty Entrepreneur
- Chapter Four: The Underlying Nature and Importance of Ventures of the Poor
- Part II: Understanding the Poverty Context
- Chapter Five: The Liabilities of Poorness
- Chapter Six: Opportunity Horizons and Poverty
- Chapter Seven: Rethinking the Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Part III: From Fragility to Sustainability
- Chapter Eight: Escaping the Commodity Trap
- Chapter Nine: Identity, Fear of Failure, and Fear of Success
- Chapter Ten: The Role of Faith in Poverty Entrepreneurship
- Part IV: Fostering an Entrepreneurial Revolution
- Chapter Eleven: Interventions, Contraventions, and the Pathway to Sustainability
- Chapter Twelve: Institutional Voids and the Role of Community
- Chapter Thirteen: A New Policy Paradigm: Fostering Capabilities and Well-being
- About the Authors