Title: Community-based entrepreneurship and wildlife sanctuaries: case studies from New Zealand

Authors: Diane M. Campbell-Hunt, Claire Freeman, Katharine J.M. Dickinson

Addresses: Department of Geography, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. ' Department of Geography, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. ' Department of Botany, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

Abstract: Community-based entrepreneurship is a comparatively new area of research in which definitions and boundaries are in debate and development. Peredo and Chrisman (2006) seminal paper proposed a model of the community-based enterprise, in which crisis triggers mobilisation of the whole community on the basis of pre-existing social and cultural capital. While focussing on impoverished communities, Peredo and Chrisman (2006) identified the need for research on community-based enterprise in the context of a developed economy, or as a response to emergent opportunity in the absence of crisis. This paper answers both those needs in reporting on community-driven initiatives to develop regional wildlife sanctuaries in New Zealand. It extends the concept of community-based entrepreneurship into the realm of ecological outcomes and compares these cases with the model proposed by Peredo and Chrisman (2006).

Keywords: community-based enterprise; ecological outcomes; entrepreneurial leadership; community governance; New Zealand; case studies; networking; vision; wildlife sanctuaries; community entrepreneurship; regional development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2010.029851

International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, 2010 Vol.2 No.1/2, pp.4 - 21

Published online: 02 Dec 2009 *

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