The need for a new entrepreneurship paradigm to address the issue of inequality

Kirby, David A. and Healey-Benson, Felicity (2024) The need for a new entrepreneurship paradigm to address the issue of inequality. In: ICSB ANNUAL Global Micro-,Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Report. International Council for Small Businesses, pp. 70-76. ISBN 9781737416852

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Abstract

In their article on Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship, Hall et al (2010, 446) make the point that “much of the work to date in the entrepreneurship field has an implicit assumption that entrepreneurship only leads to positive outcomes for society” and question the conditions under which entrepreneurship is welfare creating rather than welfare destroying. In our chapter in the ICSB’s 2024 Annual Global Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Report, Felicity and I address this with respect to the inequalities (SDG 10) that entrepreneurship has tended to create in “impoverished communities within developing and emerging economies” (op.cit). We provide examples of MSMEs that are addressing this issue and propose the need for a new Harmonious Entrepreneurship paradigm that does not see inequality as an inevitable consequence of entrepreneurship as Isenberg (2014) has contended.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions:	Research Innovation and Enterprise Services
Depositing User:	Lesley Cresswell
Date Deposited:	03 Jul 2024 12:45
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2024 12:45
URI:	https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/3024

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