Entrepreneurship as a solution to extreme poverty: A review and future research directions |
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| Authors: | Christopher Sutter Garry D. Bruton Juanyi Chen |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Farmer School of Business, Miami University, United States;2. Professor of Management, Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, United States;3. School of Management, Jilin University, China;4. Honorary Professor School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University, China |
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| Abstract: | Entrepreneurship is widely argued to be critical for alleviating extreme poverty. However, research on this topic is characterized by diverging perspectives regarding poverty alleviation and remains fragmented across various research domains. This review examines 77 leading academic journals over the period 1990 to 2017 and identifies over 200 articles on entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation. The analysis of these articles highlights three different underlying perspectives: poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship as remediation (actions that address immediate resource concerns), reform (actions leading to substantive institutional changes), and revolution (actions that change the underlying capitalist-based assumptions of business). The analysis of these articles leads to the development of extensive new insights and opportunities for future research. |
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| Keywords: | Entrepreneurship Poverty alleviation Entrepreneurial process Developing countries Poverty |
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