RT Journal Article
T1 Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia
A1 Padilla-Meléndez, Antonio
A1 Ciruela-Lorenzo, Antonio Manuel
A1 Del-Águila-Obra, Ana Rosa
A1 Plaza-Angulo, Juan José
K1 Mujeres indígenas
K1 Emprendedoras
AB Little literature exists regarding the study of entrepreneurial resilience ofindigenous women entrepreneurs (IWEs) in environments challengedwith isolation, marginalization, or poverty. New insights that explain therole of resilience in the creation, survival, and development of entrepre-neurial activities by indigenous people are needed. In this research, wedefined, in the context of IWEs, the individual traits embedded in entre-preneurial resilience. Then, we applied a qualitative approach to analysethe cases of 32 IWEs, these being current entrepreneurs located in streetor organized markets in Cochabamba (Bolivia). Interviews and self-identified critical life incidents were used to illustrate how these IWEsdeveloped their entrepreneurial activities and how resilience influencedthe emergence and improvement of those activities over time. This workcontributes to the entrepreneurship literature: first, by showing how IWEs’individual entrepreneurial resilience traits help to explain the develop-ment of entrepreneurial activities, as a way of survival and personalimprovement and, second, by proposing the dynamic entrepreneurialresilience spiral as a process of increasing individual resilience and build-ing community resilience, where the IWEs empowerment plays a key roleovercoming environmental circumstances, with education and trainingdeveloping a leverage effect.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2022
FD 2022-07-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37610
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37610
LA eng
NO Antonio Padilla-Meléndez, Antonio Manuel Ciruela-Lorenzo, Ana RosaDel-Aguila-Obra & Juan Jose Plaza-Angulo (2022) Understanding the entrepreneurialresilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case ofQuechuas in Bolivia, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 34:9-10, 852-867, DOI:10.1080/08985626.2022.2103744
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 13 abr 2026