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“God rules but I can break the rules” : The contingent role of religious fatalism on micro-entrepreneurs’ ability to get out of poverty
in 44th BCERC, Munich, Germany, June 5-8, 2024 Babson College 2024 - 6 p.
Prior research on necessity entrepreneurship fails to grasp how religious beliefs affect one’s ability to cope with poverty. Building on a mix-method approach, we investigate how micro-entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone interpret and navigate different religions, religious beliefs and rules, in securing the survival of their businesses. Our qualitative findings show that they do so by developing a complex combination of divine dependency, supernatural agency, and religious elasticity. Results from a
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between-subject experiment complement these findings showing that religious fatalism directly decreases self-efficacy, but indirectly increases it through religiosity. Taken together, these findings shed light on the cultural context of necessity entrepreneurship, offer a nuanced view of entrepreneurial agency, and clarify the relationship between religion and poverty.
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