Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: A Microenterprise Case

Martha Ríos-Manríquez (), María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández () and Elisa Isabel Cano Montero ()
Additional contact information
Martha Ríos-Manríquez: Celaya-Salvatierra Campus, University of Guanajuato
María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández: University of Coruña
Elisa Isabel Cano Montero: University of Castilla-La Mancha

A chapter in Entrepreneurship and Structural Change in Dynamic Territories, 2018, pp 317-351 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Disadvantages of emerging economies include high poverty, a lack of industrialisation, a shortage in digital training, as well as an economic and financial dependency on foreign sources. Such deficiencies influence the future of genuine entrepreneurs. Despite these limitations, and in comparison to the developed countries, these economies are the world’s economy-engine. Thus, this research focuses on the analysis of the entrepreneur’s spirit and the qualitative indicators that influence their current situation, which include a: (a) stable microenterprise, (b) growing microenterprise and (c) critical or decayed microenterprise. This research involved a non-experimental with a descriptive, correlative and regressive study. Surveys were conducted from September 2016 to January 2017, interviewing owners and/or partners of 80 different microenterprises in Celaya, Guanajuato. The aim of the results was to seek and contribute knowledge to the microentrepreneur and government, so that they may understand the qualitative aspects that influence all current situations of a microentrepreneur. Additionally, the results serve as a source for further support of this vulnerable yet essential sector within the Mexican business environment. In general, this paper shows that even with the country’s insecure and uncertain conditions, more than half of the interviewed microenterprises find their business in a stable situation and one third of the surveyed are in growth.

Keywords: Microentrepreneur; Microenterprises; Young entrepreneur; Adult entrepreneur; Enterprising adult and elderly entrepreneur; Emerging economies; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:seschp:978-3-319-76400-9_17

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319764009

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76400-9_17

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().