Dirty Entrepreneurship: The Intersectionality of Entrepreneurs' Dirty Recycling Businesses
Journal
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
ISSN
1042-2587
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2024-12-18
Author(s)
Abstract
Although much has been made about heroic entrepreneurs, there is recent interest in less glamorous forms of entrepreneurship. The least glamorous is dirty entrepreneurship. In this study, we used an inductive approach and a sample of entrepreneurs engaged in dirty plastic recycling businesses to develop an intersectionality model of entrepreneurs' dirty recycling businesses. This inductive study offers new insights into how individuals' intersectionality pushes them into dirty entrepreneurship, how they approach their businesses, and who they stigmatize. Interestingly, individuals' dirty place and caste push them into dirty entrepreneurship that collectively cleans the environment despite not intending to do so.
Keywords
sustainable
entrepreneurship
manuscripts: specialty areas
qualitative
research methods
psychology
manuscripts: general areas
decision-making
trust
social capital
Refereed
yes
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Subject(s)
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