Discipline,abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective |
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| Institution: | 1. Trier University, Universitätsring 15, 54296 Trier, Germany;2. University of Mannheim, Schloss, 68161 Mannheim, Germany;1. Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, IN, USA;2. College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando 32816, FL, USA;3. Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA;1. Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA;2. Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA;3. Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA;4. College of Business, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA;1. University of Cologne, Endowed Chair for Interdisciplinary Management Science, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Cologne D-50923, Germany;2. University of Wuppertal, Jackstädt Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research, Germany;1. Toulouse Business School, 1, Place Jourdain, 31068 Toulouse, France;2. ETH Zürich, Weinbergstrasse 56-58, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland;3. Imperial College Business School, London, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | Collective entrepreneurship has been found to alleviate extreme poverty by helping poor individuals integrate into their societies and overcome their multiple intertwined liabilities. We complement this line of inquiry by exploring the conditions under which group structures may instead reinforce economic and gendered poverty constraints.We conducted grounded-theoretical interviews with 104 women entrepreneurs operating in farming cooperatives and non-farm groups in war-torn South-West Cameroon. Analysing our data through a constitutive lens, we found that discipline, the extent to which rules determine and control individual behaviours, helps poor women overcome extreme economic constraints but prevents them from attaining prosperity and emancipation. |
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