Staying poor: unpacking the process of barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure
Granadosa, M.L. and Rosli, A. and Gotsi, Manto (2022) Staying poor: unpacking the process of barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure. Journal of Business Venturing 37 (3), ISSN 0883-9026.
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Abstract
Research on barefoot entrepreneurship is growing, yet we still know little about the potential limits of institutional entrepreneurship in the context of extreme poverty. Challenging institutional entrepreneurship theory’s agency-centric assumptions, we seek to understand how barefoot institutional entrepreneurship efforts fail amidst resistance from powerful actors in the institutional context. Our qualitative study of marginalized waste pickers in Colombia sheds light on the role of power in barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure. We unpack a paradox of inclusion: the more marginalized barefoot entrepreneurs push for and gain regulatory legitimacy for their market inclusion, the more this accentuates overt and covert power mechanisms that work to suppress the diffusion of institutional change, aggravating barefoot entrepreneurs’ market exclusion. Our study shows that while regulatory change is necessary to enhance barefoot entrepreneurs’ market inclusion, on its own it is not sufficient, without normative and cognitive support from powerful actors in the institutional field.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Barefoot institutional entrepreneurship, Failure, Power mechanisms, Market inclusion, Paradox of inclusion, Process |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2022 17:04 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/47529 |
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