Informal entrepreneurship and the insidership–outsidership duality
研究在肯尼亚内罗毕非正规定居点中，创业者如何在资源匮乏、政治无权和生存不稳定的边缘处境下，通过社会嵌入性同时扮演“内部人”和“外部人”角色，并应对这种二元性。
Entrepreneurs who operate in contexts of poverty and informality are, in many ways, archetypal ‘outsiders’. By virtue of the resource deficits they experience, their acute lack of political power, and the overall precarity of their economic lives, they are profoundly marginalised. And yet, entrepreneurship in contexts such as this is frequently characterised by high levels of social embeddedness, suggesting that – rather than being fixed or mutually exclusive conditions – ‘outsidership’ and ‘insidership’ interact and intersect across different levels of analysis. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during fieldwork in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, this study explores how entrepreneurs navigate this duality.