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Everyday entrepreneurship in poverty: a focus on the networks of the developing world

Amon Simba Orcid Logo, Eric Braune, Paul Jones Orcid Logo

Review of Managerial Science

Swansea University Author: Paul Jones Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s11846-025-00939-1

Abstract

Slums are singled out as ‘outposts’ of inescapable clutches of poverty. This widely held assumption overlooks everyday entrepreneurship in slum–based networks of donated community asset vouchers (CAVs). Utilising the closeness centrality literature, we examine 185,227 transactions involving 4972 slu...

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Published in: Review of Managerial Science
ISSN: 1863-6683 1863-6691
Published: Springer Nature 2025
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70455
Abstract: Slums are singled out as ‘outposts’ of inescapable clutches of poverty. This widely held assumption overlooks everyday entrepreneurship in slum–based networks of donated community asset vouchers (CAVs). Utilising the closeness centrality literature, we examine 185,227 transactions involving 4972 slum entrepreneurs across 60 Kenyan shanty towns. Leveraging the panoramic view afforded by their closeness centrality position in their networks, they establish a slum system of economic and social interactions based on timed CAV circulations. This contributes to research by extending the concept of networks to incorporate closeness centrality in unusual slum–based CAV networks with economic, policy, and social implications for over a billion people the UN–Habitat categorises as inhabitants of slums or shanty towns scattered across many parts of the developing world.
Keywords: Everyday entrepreneurship, Poverty, Community asset vouchers, Networks
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: Swansea University

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