Entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty Academic Article

abstract

• Individuals living in poverty remain a critical issue. This special issue focuses on how entrepreneurship can help to solve such poverty. Rather than viewing those in poverty as a market for goods, the solution lies in understanding how to help those living in poverty create their own businesses. Ultimately, entrepreneurship among those in poverty will create a long lasting solution to their poverty. Herein, we initially examine the extant knowledge about entrepreneurship. We then examine where future research on this important topic should move. Finally, we introduce the five articles that make up this special issue. These five articles came from the initial 71 submissions and enhance our knowledge about entrepreneurship as a pathway to reducing poverty. 2013 Elsevier Inc.

authors

• Ireland, Robert

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING

altmetric score

• 37.25

author list (cited authors)

• Bruton, G. D., Ketchen, D., & Ireland, R. D.

citation count

• 268

complete list of authors

• Bruton, Garry D||Ketchen, David J Jr||Ireland, R Duane

publication date

• January 2013

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Business Venturing  Journal

keywords

• Emerging Markets
• Entrepreneurship
• Poverty

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.05.002

start page

• 683

end page

• 689

volume

• 28

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.05.002

user-defined tag

• 1 No Poverty