Making the Hostile Hospitable: Constructing Entrepreneurial Contexts in an Urban Slum

Entrepreneurship researchers have become increasingly concerned with the holistic quality of context, yet despite several theoretical contributions this important stream of work has lacked empirical application. This paper draws on Zahra and Wright’s (2011) four- dimension framework of context to explore how context can serve as both a trigger for, and a product of, entrepreneurial organising. Data is drawn from an impoverished and marginalized...