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

Simba, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0276-8211, Braune, E and Jones, P, 2025. Everyday entrepreneurship in poverty: a focus on the networks of the developing world. Review of Managerial Science. ISSN 1863-6683

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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.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Review of Managerial Science
Creators:	Simba, A., Braune, E. and Jones, P.
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
Date:	24 September 2025
ISSN:	1863-6683
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s11846-025-00939-1 DOI 2503471 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2025. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	26 Sep 2025 12:46
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2025 12:46
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54460

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