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Copyright 2012 Daniel Duffy Microenterprise Entrepreneurship Necessity Opportunity Lima Peru No soy conformista: reassessing necessity and opportunity motivations for micro entrepreneurship in Lima, Peru text Orta, Andrew Duffy, Daniel 2012-05-22T00:31:23Z 2012-05-22T00:31:23Z 2012-05 2012-05-22T00:31:23Z 2012-05 Increasingly, in the field of entrepreneurial studies, venture creation is dichotomously conceived as an activity willfully undertaken to seize a business opportunity or reluctantly performed as a last resort in the face of a weak and/or inaccessible labor market. This schema purports that an entrepreneur’s disposition is fixed at the moment of business start-up, and is indicative of future performance. Opportunity types are more likely to reap substantial profits, expand, hire more workers, and ultimately contribute, on a macro-level, to higher rates of economic growth. Necessity types are subsistence-oriented, survival is the goal, and thus their contributions to national wealth are negligible. My findings, derived from open-ended, unstructured interviews with twenty-seven migrant micro entrepreneurs in Lima, Peru, complicate the “necessity-opportunity model”, and its implications. Participants’ narratives demonstrate that motivations co-exist, and tend to shift as firms and their founder’s develop; cultural and social dimensions are often just as influential as economic forces in inducing venture creation; human, social, and financial capital are the more relevant variables determining a firm’s growth potential. I also delve into entrepreneurial theory and use historical analysis to challenge the necessity-opportunity model’s theoretical foundations. I conclude by demonstrating how policy recommendations based in the dichotomy are misguided, and how they threaten to undermine the socio-economic advances made by Andean empresarios over the last two decades. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2012-04-24T13:59:02Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Duffy_Daniel.pdf.docx: 160514 bytes, checksum: 65f63f3ec876747eafeb71f802fb9671 (MD5) Duffy_Daniel.pdf: 562647 bytes, checksum: 6a0cb142e03f6709116b2437fc21a96a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-05-22T00:31:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Duffy_Daniel.pdf: 562647 bytes, checksum: 6a0cb142e03f6709116b2437fc21a96a (MD5) Duffy_Daniel.pdf.docx: 160514 bytes, checksum: 65f63f3ec876747eafeb71f802fb9671 (MD5) license.txt: 4062 bytes, checksum: 166845af3f981d34b9562a82ba1ecb69 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31152 en Latin American & Carib Studies 1729 Latin American Studies 0286 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. MA:Latin Americn Studies -UIUC 10KS0286MA