...José Afonso Guerra Fernandes; Carla Marques; Rui Silva; Mari Cruz Sánchez-Escobedo Purpose The purpose of this study is to characterize the profile of Roma entrepreneurs and understand the role their culture and community play in identifying opportunities and creating informal businesses...

...Iqbal Hossain Moral; Md. Saidur Rahaman; Md. Shikh Imran; Md. Mizanur Rahman Purpose Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the financial condition and the mental health of millions of workers from various informal sectors. This study aims to look into the hawkers’ community’s mental health...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Bangladesh Community Construction workers Quality work-life The construction industry performs as a prominent part of any country's economic growth and development process. Bangladesh is a developing country whose economy is dominated...

...Simone Guercini; Silvia Ranfagni Purpose As conviviality can nurture community social capital, this paper aims to investigate how such capital can give rise to economic behaviour in terms of developing business relationships. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis was based on case...

...Md. Saidur Rahaman; Syed Muhammod Ali Reza; Md. Mizanur Rahman; Md. Solaiman Chowdhury Purpose Throughout history, tea garden workers are treated as slaves of employers and live an inhuman life in modern society. This paper aims to provide an account of the deplorable community (workers...

...Fernando Tavares; Eulália Santos; Ana Diogo; Vanessa Ratten Purpose Human beings spend about a third of their day working, so it is very important that they are integrated into a good community work environment. When the setting is teleworking in a family and housing context, it is important...

...Vanessa Ratten Purpose Covid-19 (coronavirus) has significantly affected education communities particularly in terms of the massive shift towards online learning. This has meant a quick transformation of the curriculum and learning styles to a digital platform. Despite the dramatic change...

... agents are known as edupreneurs. Educational domain generates an opportunity for women entrepreneurs to balance work and life, both. However, women edupreneurs community needs to enhance their competencies and capacities to handle diverse issues and challenges posed by stakeholders. This paper aims...

...Mir Shahid Satar Purpose There has been a substantial realization of the importance of community engagement (CE) for social enterprise (SE) missions. However, the emerging literature on CE in social enterprises is riddled with theoretical inconsistencies and there is universal lack of studies...

...Svetlana Obydenkova; Nicholas C. Anzalone; Joshua M. Pearce Purpose Isolated communities face a variety of inconveniences including severe remoteness, poor roads and extreme climate conditions, resulting in the lack of security of supply chains and exorbitant prices for cargo delivery. This paper...

...Kofi Takyi Asante Purpose This paper aims to present two distinct approaches to migrant entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on ethnography of two Ghanaian migrant businesses, one of which draws on the Ghanaian community and another which distances itself from it, the author...

...Martina K. Linnenluecke; Brent McKnight Purpose The paper aims to examine the conditions under which disaster entrepreneurship contributes to community-level resilience. The authors define disaster entrepreneurship as attempts by the private sector to create or maintain value during...