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Dirty Entrepreneurship: The Intersectionality of Entrepreneurs’ Dirty Recycling Businesses

Year: 2024

Type: article

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.

Source: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

DOI: 10.1177/10422587241304707

Authors: Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, Joakim Wincent

Institutions: University of Notre Dame, Stockholm School of Economics, Luleå University of Technology, University of Vaasa, University of St.Gallen, Hanken School of Economics

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth, Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4405543994

FWCI: 2.222

Cites: 120

Cited by: 5

Related to: 10