Entrepreneurship, marginality and social stratification

• Autor(a) principal: Vale, Gláucia Maria Vasconcellos
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Texto Completo: https://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rae/article/view/23313
• topic: Entrepreneur; marginalization; mobility; social stratification; social class.; Emprendedor; marginalidad; movilidad; clase social; estrato social.; Empreendedor; marginalidade; mobilidade; classe social; estrato social.

Entrepreneurship history enlivens the role of marginalized social groups in their attempts at social insertion. Nowadays, there is scanty a body of researches about entrepreneurship and social stratification, particularly in Brazil. This article stems from a survey, carried out in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, as it focused on the original social layers of local industrial entrepreneurs as well as it correlated to the pattern of inter-generational mobility (fathers to sons) therein. Drawing from our empirical research it may be posited: i.) entrepreneurship doesn’t tend to be a pathway pursued by the elite, being mostly a lower-middle class phenomenon; ii.) the lower the original social stratum, the bigger the chances of inter-generational social vertical mobility. The results shed lights on role of entrepreneurship as a way to social mobility.