Building Inclusive Markets in Rural Bangladesh: How Intermediaries Work Institutional Voids

By Johanna Mair, Ignasi Martí, M. Ventresca. 2012

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Economic inequality – Is entrepreneurship the cause or the solution? A review and research agenda for emerging economies (2021, background): “However, while academics have shown increasing interest in intermediaries (e.g. Dutt et al., 2016; Mair et al., 2012), the understanding of intermediaries and their relationship to economic inequality remains in its infancy.”
The Influence of Formal and Informal Institutional Voids on Entrepreneurship (2020, background): “While the concept of formal institutional voids has served as the basis for a significant stream of research concerning entrepreneurship, scholars have placed less effort in understanding how informal institutions support or constrain enterprise pursuits (exceptions include Khoury & Prasad, 2016; Li”
Microfinance and the business of poverty reduction: Critical perspectives from rural Bangladesh (2017, background): “In many ways we provide the ‘other side’ of the picture in the important work done by Mair et al. (2012) on building inclusive markets in rural Bangladesh by drawing on the experiences of people that are being included in the global financial services system.”
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival (2017, methodology): “We contribute to research on emerging markets (e.g. Guillen, 2000; Henisz, Dorobantu, and Nartey, 2014; Khanna and Rivkin, 2001; Luo and Chung, 2013; Mair, Martí, and Ventresca, 2012; Siegel, 2007) by proposing reputation as a meta-resource that can help firms mitigate and capitalize on…”
How do resilience and self-efficacy relate to entrepreneurial intentions in countries with varying degrees of fragility? A six-country study (2020, background): “…intermediaries, regulatory systems and contract-enforcing mechanisms in emerging markets – are an outcome of conflict and contradiction among local political, community and religious spheres (Mair et al., 2012) and hamper the implementation of business strategies (Mickiewicz and Olarewaju, 2020).”
Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change: The Mediating Role of Empowerment (2016, background): “Social entrepreneurship has also been associated with wider social change processes (Acs et al. 2013; Alvord et al.2004; Mair et al. 2012a, b; Mair and Martı́ 2009; Steyaert and Hjorth 2006); however, we know little about how social entrepreneurship leads to social change.”
International business responses to institutional voids (2017, background): “For example, even though societal beliefs about women had not been previously related to institutional voids, Mair et al. (2012) shed important light on the systematic influence of this cultural norm on access to entrepreneurial opportunities.”
Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, and Institutions: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship across Nations (2013, positive): “Unlike commercial entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs may address activities not yet well framed by markets but open them up for commercial exploitation once new organizational forms and business solutions have been developed (e.g., Mair et al., 2012; McMullen, 2011).”
Sourcing for the base of the pyramid: Constructing supply chains to address voids in subsistence markets (2015, positive): “Scholars have extended this concept to subsistence markets and concluded that these markets are characterized by even more severe institutional voids (Mair et al., 2012 identify five types of institutional voids: voids in product markets, labor markets, capital markets, regulations, and contracting.”