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Entrepreneurialism, Inequality, and Society: Organizational and Policy Implications Open
This Special Issue investigates how the phenomenon of entrepreneurialism shapes society, particularly with respect to inequality. While entrepreneurship has evolved from being viewed as a fringe phenomenon focused largely, if not entirely,…
Survivalist Organizing in Urban Poverty Contexts Open
Institutional scholarship on organizing in poverty contexts has focused on the constraining nature of extant institutions and the need for external actors to make transformative change interventions to alleviate poverty. Comparatively litt…
Entrepreneurship as Religion: The Sacred Cosmos of Entrepreneurial Capitalism Open
Modern-day entrepreneurship ideology prominently features religious characteristics. When viewed through the analytical foil of religion, the sacred cosmos of entrepreneurial capitalism comes into relief, endowing entrepreneurship with a m…
View article: The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations
The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations Open
A rapidly growing research stream examines the social effects of entrepreneurship on society. This research assesses the rise of entrepreneurship as a dominant theme in society and studies how entrepreneurship contributes to the production…
View article: The <i>Social</i> Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations
The <i>Social</i> Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations Open
A rapidly growing research stream examines the social effects of entrepreneurship on society. This research assesses the rise of entrepreneurship as a dominant theme in society and studies how entrepreneurship contributes to the production…
View article: The Experimental Hand: How Platform-based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy
The Experimental Hand: How Platform-based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy Open
We examine how platform-based experimentation influences worker autonomy when workers do not have access to the same relational opportunities that workers in conventional bureaucratic organizations have traditionally relied on to preserve …
View article: Scaling technology ventures in Africa: new opportunities for research
Scaling technology ventures in Africa: new opportunities for research Open
Research on new venture creation in Africa is growing rapidly. This increasing interest reflects both the potential for entrepreneurship to contribute to the economic and social development of Africa, as well as the potential for this rese…
View article: Scaling Technology Ventures in Africa: New Opportunities for Research
Scaling Technology Ventures in Africa: New Opportunities for Research Open
Research on new venture creation in Africa is growing rapidly. This increasing interest reflects both the potential for entrepreneurship to contribute to the economic and social development of Africa, as well as the potential for this rese…
The Unique Vulnerabilities of Entrepreneurial Ventures to Misconduct Open
Entrepreneurs and their ventures are often portrayed as unambiguously positive forces in society. Specifically, high technology and equity-funded startups are heralded for their innovative products and services that are believed to alter t…
Making Sense of Africa's Emerging Digital Transformation and its Many Futures Open
Digital technologies have spread across the African continent at an inexorable pace. Widely cited data on adoption rates suggest that digital technologies are making their way into every facet of life in African societies — a broader chang…
Behind the Scenes of Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya: A Rich Microcosm for Contextualizing and Advancing Global Organization Studies Open
Technology entrepreneurship is on the rise around the world. In the quest for change, comparative advantage, innovation creation and socioeconomic progress, a turn to entrepreneurial solutions to persistent developmental challenges has pro…
The Art of Managing Worldviews in Kenya’s International Technology Sector Open
What do you need to do to become successful in Kenya’s tech scene? This chapter investigates whether there is something like a Kenyan recipe—a holy grail—for success. We find two different worldviews, a Kenyan and an international, that ch…
Entrepreneuring for Society: What Is Next for Africa? Open
Digital Kenya is a modest representation of the powerful space and time in which an inspiring generation of entrepreneurs finds itself at the present moment—a generation that is working actively to bring the benefits of the digital age to …
Digital Kenya: An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making Open
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT …