Exploring the potential impact of colonialism on national patterns of entrepreneurial networking

Georgiou, Catherine, Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah, Andriopoulos, Constantine and Gotsi, Manto 2013. Exploring the potential impact of colonialism on national patterns of entrepreneurial networking. International Small Business Journal 31 (2) , pp. 217-224. 10.1177/0266242611404261

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Abstract

This study emphasizes the concept of variform universality and considers whether colonialism may be one of the cultural drivers of such divergence. We use a well-established methodology to explore the personal entrepreneurial networks of Cypriots with those of their Greek and English counterparts. We suggest that entrepreneurial networking exhibits variform universality, whereby patterns evident across nations are moderated by culture. We conclude by relating these tentative findings to other work suggesting that power-related phenomena may be important in shaping variform universality in entrepreneurial networks. We recommend post-colonial theory as a promising path to explore these in-between social spaces where the entrepreneurship of the dominated is enacted.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HG Finance H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Uncontrolled Keywords:	colonialism, networks, variform universality
Publisher:	SAGE
ISSN:	0266-2426
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2019 00:19
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/22838

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