Dirty Entrepreneurship: The Intersectionality of Entrepreneurs’ Dirty Recycling Businesses
2025 (English)In: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, ISSN 1042-2587, E-ISSN 1540-6520, Vol. 49, no 5, p. 1261-1291Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2025. Vol. 49, no 5, p. 1261-1291
Keywords [en]
sustainable, entrepreneurship, manuscripts: specialty areas, qualitative, research methods, psychology, manuscripts: general areas, decision-making, trust, social capital
National Category
Business Administration
Research subject
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-111184DOI: 10.1177/10422587241304707ISI: 001380648100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85212426053OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-111184DiVA, id: diva2:1924180
Note
Validerad;2025;Nivå 2;2025-08-14 (u5)
2025-01-032025-01-032025-10-21Bibliographically approved