Title: Unusual entrepreneurs for unusual entrepreneurship

Authors: Thierry Burger-Helmchen

Addresses: BETA, University of Strasbourg, AgroParisTech, CNRS, INRA, 67000, Strasbourg, France

Abstract: This paper proposes a framework that contributes to facilitating understanding of unusual forms of entrepreneurship and their interaction with economics actors and institutions. Particularly, our framework is based on the 5M framework (markets, money, management, macro and meso environment) proposed by Brush et al. (2009). We analyse these factors in the light of unusual entrepreneurship: unusual macro environment, unusual meso environment, unusual management, unusual money, unusual market, and in addition unusual microenvironment. Our contribution is threefold: 1) to enhance knowledge and understanding of unusual forms of entrepreneurship; 2) to advance knowledge and raise awareness of new forms of entrepreneurship and the related benefits and challenges; 3) to provide insights of a range of social, economic and cultural factors that will impact on entrepreneurial activities among indigenous and migrants.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; conceptual model; immigrant entrepreneurship; indigenous.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSEI.2020.113669

International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2020 Vol.5 No.3, pp.241 - 257

Received: 02 Dec 2020
Accepted: 12 Dec 2020
Published online: 15 Mar 2021 *