Resilient Tightroping as Becoming Included: Theorizing from the Journey of Kazakhstani Disabled Entrepreneur
Kenzhegaranova M.
August 2023SAGE Publications Ltd
South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases
2023#12Issue 2139 - 151 pp.
Scholars of entrepreneurship among people with disabilities suggest that it is necessary to develop deeper insights into the contextual elements that enable or oppose such entrepreneurship. This study problematizes a core premise of the disability entrepreneurship literature that social support, institutional support or both enact disability entrepreneurship. This study modifies the premise by examining a case from the contextual scenario of a post-Soviet country where both societal and institutional attention to disability are largely inadequate and unfavourable. This case study concerns a blind female dancer in Kazakhstan who developed herself into a successful cultural entrepreneur. This inductive study proposes a process model which is labelled resilient tightroping, a model that enables a person with a disability to move towards empowerment and inclusion. The author is well aware that one cannot generalize from a single case. On the other hand, a single case can identify a deficiency in current thinking and point to additional directions where research is needed.
case study , Disability , entrepreneurship , inclusivity , post-Soviet
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Suleyman Demirel University, Kaskelen, Kazakhstan
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