Community entrepreneurship is a potentially powerful mechanism to improve the well-being
of rural communities. To mobilize inhabitants for collective action, an emerging community …

Purpose–This paper aims to focus on the role of the community entrepreneur and the
process of community entrepreneurship. It seeks to emphasize the social context as critical …

This article examines the powerful yet overlooked role of community-based enterprises
(CBEs)—enterprises that are collectively established, owned, and controlled by the …

Purpose–Community ventures are likely to increase the well-being and attractiveness of
local communities. Community entrepreneurs mobilize inhabitants to actively involve them in …

This article explores the effects of embeddedness in communities upon entrepreneurial
practices. Based on the lived experiences of 10 craft entrepreneurs, this study reveals that …

This paper reviews the literature on community enterprises (CEs), ie organizations that
engage in commercial activity and operate for the development of a local community by …

This paper aims to build theory on the resource mobilisation process of nascent community
ventures (CVs). CVs are a type of social enterprises set up with the aim of creating social …

The addition of new enterprises to the economy has long been considered essential to
economic growth. The process of venture creation in the private sector has been heavily …

This article examines the development of an entrepreneurial community focused on civic
wealth creation. This case study identifies how a team of community entrepreneurs …

The importance of informal institutions and in particular culture for entrepreneurship is a
subject of ongoing interest. Past research has mostly concentrated on cross-national …