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This article examines the development of an entrepreneurial community focused on civic wealth creation. This case study identifies how a team of community entrepreneurs successfully leveraged their relationships to develop a shared vision and invest complementary assets to re-build a defunct cotton mill and form an entrepreneurial community around...
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... story of the re-development of the mill will be told alongside of the explanation of the entrepreneurial community formation model in the findings section of the paper. The formation of the entrepreneurial community is represented in Figure 1 as a four-stage function that is driven by place-based personal relationships to create civic wealth. It began with the development of a shared vision among the founding entrepreneurs. ...
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... Des recherches se sont cependant emparées de certaines alternatives aux politiques purement descendantes, en donnant davantage à l'État un rôle « de facilitateur plutôt que de coordinateur direct des réseaux entrepreneuriaux et des activités de soutien à l'entrepreneuriat » (Spigel et Harrison, 2018, p. 11). Elles ont, par exemple, exploré les modes de gouvernance des écosystèmes entrepreneuriaux (Candeias et Sarkar, 2022 ;Cavallo et al., 2019 ;Colombo, Dagnino, Lehmann et Salmador, 2019 ;Spigel et Harrison, 2018) ou des communautés entrepreneuriales (Dowin Kennedy, 2021 ;Feld, 2020 ;Markley, Lyons et Macke, 2015) sous un angle différent, en tâchant de susciter des dynamiques de gouvernance « bottom-up ». Malgré tout, ces travaux sont entrepris avec la volonté d'éviter les approches « top-down » : ils n'ont pas vocation à transformer une politique publique « topdown » en un jeu à somme positive qui intégrerait également des dynamiques « bottom-up ». ...
De nombreuses politiques publiques sont articulées autour de la création d’entreprises innovantes et mises en œuvre de manière descendante – « top-down ». Ces initiatives reposent sur la capacité de l’acteur public à engager les entrepreneurs dans une logique ascendante – « bottom-up » – complémentaire. La littérature existante ne permet pourtant pas d’appréhender cette passerelle nécessaire, qui puisse permettre aux entrepreneurs de s’approprier ces initiatives dont ils ne sont ni les décideurs ni les initiateurs. Cette recherche analyse précisément le succès d’une politique publique « top-down » qui a su être menée pour et par les entrepreneurs : la « French Tech ».
... A key feature of CWC initiatives is the engagement of a broad coalition of stakeholders. In contrast to government regulation or international aid models, which have been known to introduce ill-conceived solutions (Riddell, 2007), CWC initiatives combine agency resources and technical support with grassroots efforts by engaged citizens who are part of and benefit from such initiatives (Dowin Kennedy, 2021). As such, CWC reflects what Freeman and colleagues label as the principle of stakeholder cooperation, which states, in part, "Stakeholders can jointly satisfy their needs and desires by making voluntary arrangements with each other that for the most part are kept… created through shared assumptions and beliefs in a community" (2010, p. 281). ...
... Dowin Kennedy (2021); M. Kelly (2021) defines community-focused development as an effort to raise the dignity of those who, due to their circumstances, are unable to break the cycle of poverty and underdevelopment. An area's development is geared toward examining the resource potential with a focus on people as actors and users. ...
This study attempts to analyze the impact of Indonesian government policies on poverty alleviation through the tourism industry, particularly in the Mandalika Special Economic Zone. This research uses a case study method with a saturation technique in finding Participants. In addition, the authors carried out several stages in the analysis including data reduction, data display, triangulation, and conclusion. Nvivo software is used to analyze this research data. The findings suggest that government-supported tourism has reduced poverty to some extent while also increasing the opportunities, employability skills, and willingness of the poor to participate. However, the centralized development structure creates a gap in what is needed by the surrounding community.
... In some areas, small business owners are utilizing the internet and social media to promote their own goods and services while working with other small businesses by leveraging social media collaboratively to "co-promote" a region (Dowin Kennedy, 2021, Jones, et al., 2015, Notta and Vlachvei, 2013. The use of social media sites is not only useful for small firms in connecting with their customers, but also for working collaboratively with small firms in their network. ...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) within an entrepreneurial community engage in cross-promotion on social media via Facebook. This paper specifically examines how SME community members leverage their horizontal and vertical ties to generate publicity, improve brand perceptions and drive traffic to themselves or community events.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses a qualitative approach, examining 1,025 Facebook posts from 27 members of an entrepreneurial community in the southeast USA to develop typologies of posting strategies, post purposes and post functions.
Findings
This paper finds that in the entrepreneurial community of interest, many members engage in cross-promotion via social media at various frequencies and with distinctive purposes. This paper identifies five distinct patterns of cross-promotion – quality signaling, traffic driving, community amplifying, hybrid cross-promotion and infrequent engagement. This paper also notes differences between cross-promotional strategies of vertical and horizontal partners.
Originality/value
This paper advances understanding of social media marketing and identifies key patterns of SME social media behavior. Although previous research has noted the importance of social media for SMEs, there has been little research regarding posting strategies being used by these firms. Further, to this point, there has not been a framework to understand how firms can use social media to cross-promote one another. This paper seeks to begin filling these gaps by providing a useful framework that can be used by SMEs in coordinating their social media posting strategies as well as by researchers studying SME cross-promotion.
Increasingly people experience alienation in educational institutions, in work life, and fragmentation in personal life. This paper explores more self-determined, healthy, and sustainable forms of working, learning, and living through a dynamic process which began in 2020 with the purchase of an old homestead in Eastern Germany. Through the remodeling of the buildings and grounds, the first social and cultural references emerged. Along with practical uses, the farm project sees itself as a future workshop or think tank. The resulting consideration includes ideas of compulsory schooling woven into a self-designed format and the introduction of an unconditional basic income. These components could lead to thousands of such projects in rural and urban areas. Drawing from communitarianism, the belief is that an active civil society must take on social, economic, and educational responsibility and offer children and young people improved conditions in which to grow up. Theory development on the individual components exists, like entrepreneurship, transformation, community-building, basic income, or self-directed learning, but not on the interaction of these variables in the overall context. We tentatively call this integrated design transformative community projects.
New digital technology has revolutionized the uncertainty inherent in entrepreneurial processes, results, and the methods for coping with such delay. This has sparked discussion on digital entrepreneurship and the relationship between digital technology and entrepreneurship. The survey was distributed online using Google Forms between January 2022 and February 2022. The target population for the study included entrepreneurs and young graduates in Lebanon. The survey was administered in English, considered the second language used in Lebanon. Additionally, the sample used for this study is 270 employees (N=270). Many entrepreneurs' lives and jobs are now affected by technological advancements. People aren't sure how it's going to turn out, but one thing is for sure: it's going to provide something fresh and challenging. It must be a worldwide effort, engaging all stakeholders, including politicians, business leaders, educators, and public members. With these improvements in Lebanon, the whole production, management, and governance systems will be transformed.
