The Institutional Context of Community Entrepreneurship Behaviour in Nigeria: Lessons from Three Case Communities

Rotimi Olaniyan ()
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Rotimi Olaniyan: Nottingham Trent University

Chapter Chapter 6 in The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship, 2022, pp 115-143 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter seeks to construct a better theoretical understanding of how institutional factors impact on entrepreneurial behaviour at the collective community-based level. The data derives from the manifest entrepreneurial behaviours of members of three Nigerian community ventures, extracted using quantitative methods. It builds on earlier works of (Shane,.A General Theory of Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, 2003); (Stevenson, L. and Lundstrom, A.A. (2007) Dressing the emperor: The fabric of entrepreneurship policy In Audretsch D.B, Grilo, I. and Thurik A (eds.) Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.); (Ben Letaifa and K, Goglio-Primard.,.Journal of Business Research 69:5128–5134, 2016), and Sommerville and McElwee (2011) among others. These entrepreneurs perceive the institutional environment within which they enact as being debilitating. These failures have created tensions in the way they interpret the formal institutional rules within which they must operate. On account of this, community entrepreneurs rely heavily on informal arrangements to navigate around the harsh conditions experienced. Ultimately, the author finds that institutional factors and their influences on community-based entrepreneurs are interpreted differently across communities, creating different typologies of institutional munificence. This offers the building blocks of a novel diagnostic model for evaluating environmental munificence of target entrepreneurial communities.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Community; Institutional Context; Nigeria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75894-3_6

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