Panel at the International Sociological Association’s Fourth Forum of Sociology
Porto Alegre, Brazil
14-18 July 2020
Deadline: 9/30

Call for Abstracts: Studies of entrepreneurs inform us of their challenges in launching, achieving success and even their revival from failure. Comparisons among Latin American countries find that entrepreneurs work the market, playing one lender off against another to obtain optimal loans with few encumbrances. Research in poorer communities (favelas) in Brazil indicates that while entrepreneurs receive support from government and NGOs such as foreign and religious organizations and political parties, alliances also occur with informal investors and non-law groups such as gangs. Yet, at the end of the day, if entrepreneurs are not successful, if they tumble, do they resurrect? Does entrepreneurial spirit endure? A recent study finds that it does. Via the Internet, a researcher learned how entrepreneurs accounted for their failure and what they did to restore their initiative. Information technology, by sourcing the internet, offers new methods to study entrepreneurship and to what extent it contributes to the wealth and welfare of nations.

Please submit an abstract (300 words max) through the ISA Portal: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/cfp.cgi then click RC02.

You can learn more about the Economy and Society Research Committee (RC02), which is organizing this session, along with 27 others, at RC02.org.

You can learn more about the International Sociological Association’s Fourth Forum of Sociology at https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2020.