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The Mobilization of Noncooperative Spaces: Reflections from Rohingya Refugee Camps
Author(s) -
Chowdhury Rashedur
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/joms.12612
Subject(s) - refugee , mainstream , power (physics) , order (exchange) , pyramid (geometry) , intervention (counseling) , entrepreneurship , political science , sociology , political economy , business , law , psychology , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , optics
In this essay, I challenge key assumptions in the mainstream entrepreneurship literature that individuals have the capability to change their fate through entrepreneurial activities wherever in the world they may be. I advance the concept of a coordinated and regulative cooperative market to argue that the rebalancing of power between marginalized actors such as refugees and ordinary locals, and powerful agents of what I term the ‘uncooperative sociostructure’ is essential in order to improve the wellbeing of refugees. Without a cooperative sociostructural intervention, capitalistic market mechanisms such as bottom of the pyramid (BoP) and microfinance as means to individual freedom simply imprison refugees further.