Community-based entrepreneurship and wildlife sanctuaries: case studies from New Zealand. Issue 1 (3rd December 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Campbell-Hunt, Diane M.; Freeman, Claire; Dickinson, Katharine J.M.
• Is Part Of: International journal of innovation and regional development. Volume 2:Issue 1/2 (2010)
• Page Start: 4
• Page End: 21
• Publication Date: 2009-12-03
• Subjects: community-based enterprise -- ecological outcomes -- entrepreneurial leadership -- community governance -- New Zealand -- case studies -- networking -- vision -- wildlife sanctuaries -- community entrepreneurship -- regional development; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Community development -- Periodicals; Technological innovations -- Periodicals; 307.105
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-0660

Abstract

Community-based entrepreneurship is a comparatively new area of research in which definitions and boundaries are in debate and development. Peredo and Chrisman (2006) seminal paper proposed a model of the community-based enterprise, in which crisis triggers mobilisation of the whole community on the basis of pre-existing social and cultural capital. While focussing on impoverished communities, Peredo and Chrisman (2006) identified the need for research on community-based enterprise in the context of a developed economy, or as a response to emergent opportunity in the absence of crisis. This paper answers both those needs in reporting on community-driven initiatives to develop regional wildlife sanctuaries in New Zealand. It extends the concept of community-based entrepreneurship into the realm of ecological outcomes and compares these cases with the model proposed by Peredo and Chrisman (2006).