Collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities: The importance of collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods
研究低收入社区中集体创业的三个核心要素：集体所有权、集体过程和集体产品，通过对苏格兰西部两个社区组织的质性分析，揭示它们如何相互作用，帮助社区成员开展商业活动、与政府谈判并利用社会文化资本。
By focusing on individualised theories of entrepreneurship, mainstream entrepreneurship literature often marginalises entrepreneurship as a product of collaborative action. Addressing this limitation, our emphasis on collective entrepreneurship is contextualised in the setting of low-income communities and draws out three important components: collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods. Through our qualitative research into two community organisations in the West of Scotland, we demonstrate the important interplay of each component. We provide a deeper understanding of the dynamics at play as collective forms of entrepreneurial behaviour result in community actors empowered to pursue a commercial activity, negotiate with the state and exploit existing and newly emerging social and cultural capital. Our theoretical contribution explains the linkages and connections of the three components to better understand collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities and entrepreneurial processes more generally.