Creative entrepreneurs and embeddedness in non-urban places: a resource exchange and network embeddedness logic
Purpose Drawing from resource-based theorising, the concept of network embeddedness and a process perspective on entrepreneurship, this paper establishes a conceptual framework to explain a multi-level and multi-locational network embeddedness of creative entrepreneurs in non-urban places. It challe...
| Published in: | International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Emerald
2023
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-07-2022-0606 https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJEBR-07-2022-0606/full/xml https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJEBR-07-2022-0606/full/html |
| Summary: | Purpose Drawing from resource-based theorising, the concept of network embeddedness and a process perspective on entrepreneurship, this paper establishes a conceptual framework to explain a multi-level and multi-locational network embeddedness of creative entrepreneurs in non-urban places. It challenges stylised facts about creative entrepreneurship as a predominantly urban phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach Based upon the conceptual framework for creative entrepreneurship in a non-urban place, an illustrative case study of small-scale creative-design entrepreneurs on the Lofoten Islands in Norway (2019) is utilised to discuss the framework. Findings The conceptual paper derives a fine-grained understanding about how creative entrepreneurship emerges and develops in non-urban places and contributes to a better understanding of how such places can nurture such entrepreneurship through multiple network embeddedness and resource-exchange configurations. Research limitations/implications The article will enable further empirical research that tests, validates and, if necessary, refines the framework established. Practical implications Creative entrepreneurs should use various resource-exchange combinations with diverse networks to become locally embedded in non-urban places. Public-policy managers need to be aware of this variety that may exist with the network embeddedness of such entrepreneurs to support them and develop the location through resource provisions. Originality/value The paper uses an original conceptual framework. |
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