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Entrepreneurship and Its Challenges to Sociology: Accounting for Failure, Achieving Success
Entrepreneurship and Its Challenges to Sociology: Accounting for Failure, Achieving Success
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC02 Economy and Society (host committee)
Language: Spanish, English and French
Session Type: Oral
Studies of entrepreneurs inform us of their challenges in launching, achieving success and even their revival from failure. Comparisons among Latin American countries find that entrepreneurs work the market, playing one lender off against another to obtain optimal loans with few encumbrances. Research in poorer communities (favelas) in Brazil indicates that while entrepreneurs receive support from government and NGOs such as foreign and religious organizations and political parties, alliances also occur with informal investors and non-law groups such as gangs. Yet at the end of the day if entrepreneurs are not successful, if they tumble do they resurrect? Does entrepreneurial spirit endure? A recent study finds that it does. Via the Internet a researcher learned how entrepreneurs accounted for their failure and what they did to restore their initiative. Information technology, by sourcing the internet, offers new methods to study entrepreneurship and to what extent it contributes to the wealth and welfare of nations.
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