Indian Entrepreneurial Communities: The People Who Set-up Their Businesses
Journal Title: IOSR journal of Business and Management - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 2
Abstract
Entrepreneurship has been considered as a major source of employment generation, economic growth and prosperity of a nation. India is also not an exception for good entrepreneurship. India which was famous for its’ prosperity, wealth, education and reach culture all of the sudden falls on the radar of critics. Most of the scholars of entrepreneurship including Max Weber criticized Hindu social system for retarded economic progress. They even did not pay heed to the history of invaders including Britishers who were actually responsible for the destruction of self-sufficient Indian economy. Nevertheless, thankful to the various communities who are trying to maintain the entrepreneurial culture in India and contributing to the growth of Indian economy. This study was carried out based on the secondary data. The data was mainly assessed through EBSCO, K-NIMBUS, Web of Science, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar. The community's websites, were also accessed to gain community-based specific knowledge. In the present study, an effort has been made to study important characteristics of various Indian entrepreneurial communities and their culture. The idea was to understand speciality and knacks which can trigger others to learn lessons from them and overcome on weakness. Moreover, this article is discussing in crystal clear on communities and their cultural behavior, customs like Sindhis, Jain, Chettiyar, Boharis, Gujarati, Parsis, Marwaris and Shettys communities.
Authors and Affiliations
Vishnu A. Patankar, Nikhil K. Mehta
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