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    Fostering Inclusive Entrepreneurship in South African Townships: A Contextual Analysis
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023) Felix-Faure, Palesa Charlotte; Soumonni, Diran; Fayolle, Alain
    Research has revealed a persistently low level of entrepreneurial activity among the Black South Africans, the majority of whom live in the townships. And the government has a major concern regarding the level of unemployment and poverty faced by this population group. It has therefore put into place a number of programs to foster entrepreneurship in order to develop the economy and employment. Despite these efforts, the level of entrepreneurshipamong Black South Africans, who constitute the majority of the population, has consistently remained low. This qualitative study, applying critical realism ontology, examines how a historical institution like apartheid through its racial discrimination policies may still affect current entrepreneurial behaviour. The outcome demonstrates the presence of active apartheid social mechanisms, and the effects of their underlying institutional logics on entrepreneurial behaviour. This knowledge may be useful in designing more efficient programmes to foster entrepreneurship within the township spatial context. The study contributes to the areas of entrepreneurship context, entrepreneurial motives, and entrepreneurial behaviour in relation to the understudied micro level effects of legacies of previously dominant institutional logics
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    Making Sense of Employee Ownership: An Institutional Logics Perspective
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023) Murray, Tessa-Ann; Carmichael, Terri; Luiz, John
    This grounded theory study explored the perspectives, attitudes and behaviours of individual employee-owners within organisations that had implemented share- ownership schemes as a mechanism to address the persistently elevated levels of inequality in South Africa. The study articulates how employee-owners make sense of their dual roles as employee and owner of the organisation, and how they integrate ownership into their work experience. While the motivation for implementing employee-ownership schemes may often be aligned with shareholder capitalism, increasing awareness of the alternative of stakeholder capitalism to address inequality highlights employee ownership as a way of including employees in financial participation and decision-making in the workplace. Implementing employee ownership provides an opportunity for organisations to balance and meet their financial and social commitments. The grounded theory approach utilised in-depth interview data from 18 individuals from previously disadvantaged population groups. The key findings of the study indicated that the assimilation of employee ownership is an individual, temporal, situational process that comprises progressive levels of integration. During this process, the orientations of management and employee- owners towards employee ownership influence the individual’s momentary readiness to integrate ownership into their work experience. An institutional logics interpretation of the findings revealed the influence of macro-, meso- and micro-contexts on how employee-owners perceive management’s orientation towards employee ownership and their own perceptions and expectations of inclusion as employee-owners in the workplace. As its theoretical contribution, the study clarifies the individual’s integration of ownership and proposes a model for the integration of ownership into the work experience of the collective of employee-owners over time and the institutionalisation of employee ownership in the workplace.