Communities of disentrepreneurship Journal Articles

abstract

• PurposeTo examine communities that temporarily demonstrated successful social and economic success, but regressed, or may have cycled through periods marked by unusual success and unusual failure.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analyse events in two communities that have experienced disentrepreneurship.FindingsThe authors attribute three main forces accountable for community disentrepreneurship: a failure in community leadership that allows the continuation of path dependent patron‐client relationships, peripheralisation resulting from both geographical and infrastructure constraints, and failure to adequately diversify the economic environment. It is believed that further study of communities that have experienced such cycles is both warranted, and essential.Practical implicationsA useful source of information for academics as well as for town planners, policy‐makers and economists.Originality/valueThis paper addresses a largely overlooked area of the landscape.

authors

• Honig, Benson
• Paul Dana, Leo

status

• published 

publication date

• March 28, 2008

has subject area

• 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services (FoR)

published in

• Journal of Enterprising Communities  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1108/17506200810861221

start page

• 5

end page

• 20

volume

• 2

issue

• 1