Impact Entrepreneurship in the Global South: Social Value, Power, and Gender in Solidarity Economies

Abstract

This book takes the tensions of impact and whose, what, why and how seriously. It brings together empirical, theoretical, and practitioner-grounded contributions that examine impact entrepreneurship in the Global South through the intersecting lenses of social value, power, and gender, the three terms that structure its title and its ambition. Following Granados et al.'s (2022) call for research that confronts "taken-for-granted institutionalised power relations" and resists the reproduction of class, ownership, ethnicity, and postcolonialism, the contributions collected here pursue a more transparent, more rigorous, and ultimately more justifiable account of what entrepreneurship can and cannot do for those at the margins of global capitalism. This is a volume about who benefits, who bears the costs, who gets counted and, above all, who decides.