Entrepreneurship for People With Disabilities: From Skills to Social Value

Frontiers in Psychology

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Pilar Ortiz García¹  Ángel José Olaz Capitán¹ 

[1] Sociology Department, University of Murcia

关键词: disability;    competencies;    entrepreneurship;    social value;    autonomy;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.699833

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Entrepreneurship has undoubted social value as it contributes to socio-economic development of the context where entrepreneurship takes place. When the entrepreneurial activity is undertaken among especially vulnerable groups in the labor market, the multiplying effect of this value is made explicit in society, in general, and in the collective of people with disabilities (PWDs), in particular. The objective of this research study is to explore under which conditions this happens through the analysis not only of the relationship between the competencies that PWDs attribute to themselves and their development of the entrepreneurial activity but also of that between entrepreneurship and certain conditions that potentially create value by increasing the autonomy among this collective. A quantitative methodology based on the analysis of the survey carried out on a sample of 224 entrepreneurs with physical, sensory, or organic disabilities throughout Spain has been used. According to the results, entrepreneurs with disabilities (EWDs) have a higher self-evaluation competency. Furthermore, significant results concerning the link between the form of autonomous cohabitation of this collective and entrepreneurship have been obtained.

【 授权许可】

CC BY