Description
Discourses of transitional entrepreneurship book provides an analysis of economic, occupational and social empowerment dynamics among communities whom the path of business formation involves substantive life transition. The book renders elaborate analysis of the entrepreneurial talents inherent in transitional entrepreneurs that enable them to ventilate their latent skills and endowment. Detailed analysis gives colour and contribute to the speed of entrepreneurial development. New terms and semantics diffuse into our entrepreneurial vocabulary vis-à-vis transitional entrepreneurship, such as pentepreneurship, vetepreneurship, religiopreneurship, e.t.c., which transport ideas of enterprise culture in diverse settings and clime. Transitional entrepreneurship is a focus on entrepreneurs from ethnic minorities, veterans, immigrants, refugees, women, historically marginalised groups, and economically distressed communities. The glamour around entrepreneurs informs the romanticism around the concept of entrepreneurship in particular among disadvantaged and marginalised groups. But, entrepreneurship in such groups as women, ethnic, immigrants, displaced people, returnees, and many others seem to be viewed both from a disadvantage trope or/and a superhuman cliché. The chapters in this book aim to go further and offer an integrated and interactive understanding of topics in the entrepreneurship domain. The cross-cutting approach is one of the main qualities of this book. The book highlights a great range of entrepreneurial activities from different contextual and conceptual perspectives, from ethnic entrepreneurship to diaspora entrepreneurship to military entrepreneurship and to religion entrepreneurship. These topics allow the use of different levels of analysis, from the individual entrepreneur behind an enterprise venture to the structure of organisations, including the institutional levels. Hence, the book extends the meaning and scope of entrepreneurship by capturing research and enquiry on economic, social, cultural, and personal value creation in wide-ranging contexts.