Entrepreneurship for resilience: embeddedness in place and in trans-local grassroots networks

Maxim Vlasov, Karl Johan Bonnedahl and Zsuzsanna Vincze

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2018, vol. 12, issue 3, 374-394

Abstract: Purpose - This paper aims to contribute to the emerging entrepreneurship research that deals with resilience by examining how embeddedness in place and in trans-local grassroots networks influences proactive entrepreneurship for local resilience. Design/methodology/approach - Three theoretical propositions are developed on the basis of the existing literature. These propositions are assisted with brief empirical illustrations of grassroots innovations from the context of agri-food systems. Findings - Embeddedness in place and in trans-local grassroots networks enables proactive entrepreneurship for local resilience. Social-cultural embeddedness in place facilitates access to local resources and legitimacy, and creation of social value in the community. Ecological embeddedness in place facilitates spotting and leveraging of environmental feedbacks and creation of ecological value. Embeddedness in trans-local grassroots networks provides entrepreneurs with unique resources, including globally transferable knowledge about sustainability challenges and practical solutions to these challenges. As result, entrepreneurship for resilience is explained as an embedding process. Embedding means attuning of practices to local places, as well as making global resources, including knowledge obtained in grassroots networks, work in local settings. Research limitations/implications - Researchers should continue developing the emerging domain of entrepreneurship for resilience. Practical implications - The objective of resilience and due respect to local environment may entail a need to consider appropriate resourcing practices and organisational models. Social implications - The critical roles of place-based practices for resilience deserve more recognition in today’s globalised world. Originality/value - The specific importance of the ecological dimension of embeddedness in place is emphasised. Moreover, by combining entrepreneurship and grassroots innovation literatures, which have talked past each other to date, this paper shows how local and global resources are leveraged throughout the embedding process. Thereby, it opens unexplored research avenues within the emerging domain of entrepreneurship for resilience.

Keywords: Resilience; Place; Grassroots innovations; Social and sustainable entrepreneurship; Social-cultural and ecological embeddedness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1108/JEC-12-2017-0100

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