Institutional entrepreneurship in the Ethiopian coffee industry. (1st January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Curtis, Timothy; Nalbandian, Raffi
• Is Part Of: International journal of social entrepreneurship and innovation. Volume 1: Number 3(2012)
• Page Start: 281
• Page End: 294
• Publication Date: 2012-01-01
• Subjects: public entrepreneurship international -- ethiopia coffee industry post-socialist innovation; Social entrepreneurship -- Periodicals; 361.76505
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-8257

Abstract

This paper explores the underlying public entrepreneurship in the coffee industry in Ethiopia. It investigates the concept of political innovation in a public sector entrepreneurship agenda, in the context of work exploring the employment of entrepreneurship by the state as a economic and social development strategy in post-socialist countries such as China (Curtis, 2011) and Poland (Curtis et al., 2010). The case study confirms other research on post-socialist economies but indicates the risks of participation in commodity markets, rather than shaping long-term markets (Mazzucato, 2011), and being subjected to the turmoil of unregulated markets, rather than mastering of them.