I'm trying to understand the barriers to entrepreneurship in deprived fishermen community in rural Kutch. I'm also trying to see the role of State for the same community. How does State role play out vis-a-vis the neoliberal push for entrepreneurship is my interest!
Barriers to entrepreneurship come in many forms and shape, as you well know. Although not necessarily dealing with the role of State, Mark Granovetter's piece "The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurship" may be a good starting place to find some ideas on trust, solidarity, and community values as both enabling and constraining structures for entrepreneurship. Along similar lines, Clifford Geertz's "Peddlers and Princes" is a classical study on entrepreneurship in developing countries. (Granovetter also invokes Geertz.) More generally, you may find bits and pieces about the role of the State (and its bureaucratic features) for economic growth in Peter Evans "Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation." One caveat: although the works mentioned previously do not answer directly your question, they can, however, offer some food for thought and bibliographic suggestions.
Hope this helps!
C.
I´d like to invite you to read my paper "the innovation process as a complex structure with multilevel rules". I think in the my framework you will find several elements that can help you to answers your question.
Nick Williams and myself have conducted research on the barriers to entrepreneurship in deprived communities, published in Local Economy, and Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. You will find it on my ResearchGate page. In addition, I have conducted research on how a greater proportion of entrepreneurship in deprived communities tend to be conducted in the informal economy where start-ups use the informal economy as a test-bed during venture creartion, and many continue to operate on such a basis afterwards.
I guess you know the recent books by Jaideep Prabhu on frugal innovation. http://jugaadinnovation.com/jaideep-prabhu/. I don't know if he really addressed deprived communities, but it might help.
Prithi Parikh (UCL) recent works on entrepreneurship in Indian slums and Africa https://scholar.google.be/citations?hl=en&user=gQ6cNtoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
We have a paper in Energy Policy about how the state can support entrepreneurs in the off-grid solar industry in developing countries, with evidence mainly from India and Africa https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257126535_Exploring_the_link_between_products_and_services_in_low-income_marketsEvidence_from_solar_home_systems
I hope this helps.
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You can be inetrested to the enclosed article, especially teh section on ethnical minorities.
Regards,
MV
Jaideep has a recent paper with Sanjay Jain in Asia Pacific Journal of Management on Jugaad.
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