17 Empowering Entrepreneurs From Marginalized Backgrounds Through Critical Entrepreneurial-Mindset Training

Alexander Glosenberg

DOI: 10.4324/9781003272397-21

The world in the early 21st century is buffeted by at least three interrelated challenges: rising socioeconomic inequality, accelerating environmental degradation, and an ebb in democratic institutions. These trends are, at least in part, a cause of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and leave traditional institutions (multilaterals, governments, and corporations) with a diminished ability, and/or willingness, to bring about positive social and environmental change. The answer to overcoming global challenges must come from grassroots efforts by empowered citizens who both proactively ...

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