Micro entrepreneurship in the care sector: motives, values and practices

Kelly Hall; Catherine  Needham; Kerry Allen

doi:10.1332/204080519X15738068469662

Micro entrepreneurship in the care sector: motives, values and practices

Kelly Hall, Catherine Needham, Kerry Allen

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This paper uses qualitative interviews to explore the identity of care micro enterprises, focusing on the motives, values and practices of the people who set them up (the ‘micro entrepreneurs’). It draws on a bricolage framework to demonstrate how they use local resources and networks, as well as traits of creativity and improvisation to overcome limitations and get ahead within a turbulent and under-resourced social care sector. In doing so, it contributes to debates on hybridity, in particular the internal and external conflicts that hybrid organisations like micro enterprises face when managing competing social and market logics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	311–328
Number of pages	18
Journal	Voluntary Sector Review
Volume	10
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1332/204080519X15738068469662
Publication status	Published - 27 Nov 2019

Keywords

bricolage
care
entrepreneurship
hybridity
micro enterprise

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