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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Volume 49, Issue 4, Pages 785-812Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01044.x
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base of the pyramid (BOP); entrepreneurship policy; innovation; social entrepreneurship; social inclusion; tourism industry
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Policy makers often see entrepreneurship as a panacea for inclusive growth in underdeveloped Base of the Pyramid (BOP) regions, but it may also lead to unanticipated negative outcomes such as crime and social exclusion. Our objective is to improve the understanding of how entrepreneurship policies can lead to socially inclusive growth at the BOP. Drawing on data collected from Brazilian tourism destinations with varying entrepreneurship, innovation, and social inclusion policies, we argue that weak institutions coupled with alert entrepreneurs encourage destructive outcomes, especially if entrepreneurship policies are based solely on economic indicators. Policies addressing both economic and social perspectives may foster more productive entrepreneurial outcomes, albeit at a more constrained economic pace. The study extends the related BOP, entrepreneurship, global value chain, and sustainable tourism literatures by examining the poor as entrepreneurs, the role of local innovation, and how entrepreneurship policies generate different social impacts within poor communities.
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