Why Entrepreneurship Process as a Battle for Business Resources Recognition for Disadvantaged People?

Abstract

Entrepreneurship with disability is now a significant concern from a
number of different policy perspectives in all economies: promoting
entrepreneurship among the disabled groups, preventing social exclusion, and
narrowing the gap in employment rates between disabled people and the rest of the
population of the country. A number of studies of disabled people’s employment
have highlighted self-employment could be an important source of paid work but
very few have focused specifically on entrepreneurial propensity with resourcesbased
view (RBV). Consequently, although it is clear that a significant proportion of
disabled people are self-employed in many countries, little is known about who they
are, what kind of resources they have, and the earnings they derive from
entrepreneurship process. The association between entrepreneurship and disability
still is uncertain. Moreover, the disabled entrepreneur’s level of ownership of
capital resources in the form of human, social and financial capitals in their own
business is unclear. With this in view, there is a need to investigate the relationship
of capital resources and the self- employed disabled for developing a better
entrepreneurship economy. This paper is exploratory in nature, takes a positivist
stance, and aims to add explanatory knowledge to the field of disabled
entrepreneurship at the UK which could be also supportive for new policy
entrepreneurship research in the field Bangladesh in near future.