Slum-based CAV networks : networking in unyielding poverty situations

Simba, Amon (author), Braune, Eric (author), Dabić, Marina (author)

Over a billion of the world's population reside in slums. However, the configurations of their social and structural ties in these environments remain unsubstantiated. Drawing on a psychosociological rational choice perspective, we introduce theoreti- cal explanations distinguishing slum dwellers' behavior, actions, and attitudes in community asset voucher (CAV) networks. Regression and equation modeling results, based on 19,892 slum dwellers' CAV transactions, reveal intersecting socio-economic dynamics suggesting that twenty-five percent (25%) of these dwellers are entrepreneurially-minded. They leverage CAVs for con- sumption and enterprise purposes. They also time when to transact in their slum-based CAV networks. Their central position indicates that they influence CAV transactions. But seventy-five percent (75%) of these dwellers are passive. They accept that they cannot change their seemingly unyielding poverty situation; hence, they only receive and use CAVs for consumption purposes. This stark contrast in behavior and attitude carries academic, economic, and social ramifications.

• Language: English
• Keywords: entrepreneurship, poverty, incubator network, community-based networks, networking, slum entrepreneurs
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-177406
• UDC: 005.3
• ISSN on article: 1086-1718
• DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2673
• COBISS.SI-ID: 237166339
• Publication date in RUL: 22.12.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Strategic change
• Shortened title: Strateg. change
• Publisher: Wiley
• ISSN: 1086-1718
• COBISS.SI-ID: 512083225

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podjetništvo, revščina, inkubatorska mreža

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0441
• Name: Regeneracija ekonomije in posla