Bringing Entrepreneurship into the Context of Community Development

• 발행기관: 지역사회학회
• 저자명: 정동일(Dong Il Jung)
• 간행물 정보: 『지역사회학』지역사회학 제15권 제3호, 5~32쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 사회학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.08.31

영문 초록

Using the emerging concept of community entrepreneurship, this paper examines the process by which a backward community pursues community development, and finds out some factors that facilitate or inhibit this entrepreneurial process. Community entrepreneurship is not a single-step, one-time activity, but the process of a series of activities that pass through several steps. Building on the review of prior research, we constructed a stepwise model of community entrepreneurship, which consists of social infrastructure building, opportunity recognition, and implementation. Then, we derived four critical factors involved in the process of community entrepreneurship: exclusive social capital, inclusive social capital, leadership, and strength of external links. Overall, empirical analyses of community leaders supported the stepwise model presented here. It is also found that while social capital was an important factor in the early stage of community entrepreneurship, leadership and abundance in external links rose to prominence in the later stage. This suggests that each step of community entrepreneurship has a unique set of obstacles that must be overcome and facilitators that must be exploited.

목차

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

DATA AND METHODS

RESULTS

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

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키워드

community entrepreneurship community development social capital leadership external links