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Re-enacting contextual boundaries – entrepreneurial resourcefulness in challenging environments

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posted on 2023-06-08, 15:41 authored by Friederike Welter, Mirela XhenetiMirela Xheneti
In this chapter, we advance an understanding of entrepreneurial resourcefulness in relation to context by focusing on challenging and sometimes outright hostile environments and the way they shape, and are shaped by, entrepreneurial resourcefulness. Drawing on selective evidence from several projects in post-socialist countries in both Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia and other published research covering these countries, we argue for contextualized conceptualizations of resourcefulness. More specifically we emphasize that temporal, historical, socio-spatial and institutional contexts are antecedents and boundaries for entrepreneurial behaviour, whilst at the same time allowing for human agency. This is visible in individuals’ actions to negotiate, re-enact and cross these boundaries; and as a result, intentionally or inadvertently contributing to changing contexts. We suggest that resourcefulness is a dynamic concept encompassing multiple practices, which change over time, and it results from a close interplay of multiple contexts with entrepreneurial behaviour. We also propose that from a theoretical point of view, resourcefulness not only needs to be contextualized, but it also needs to be explored together with its contextual outcomes – the value it creates and adds at different levels of society.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Emerald Publishing

Issue

15

Volume

15

Page range

149-183

Pages

300.0

Book title

Entrepreneurial resourcefulness: competing with constraints

Place of publication

Bradford

ISBN

9781781900185

Series

Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth

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  • Business and Management Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Jerome Katz, Andrew Corbett

Legacy Posted Date

2013-09-12

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