Support Service Providers for Disabled Entrepreneurs

Abstract: 

The variations in understanding of developing entrepreneurship by different support service provider (SSP) organisations for disabled entrepreneurs have been explored from this qualitative research. The aim of this paper is to explore the experiences of support service provider (SSP) organisations for developing entrepreneurship for disabled people. A few number of support service provider (SSP) organisations deliver entrepreneurship services for the promotion of entrepreneurship for disabled people throughout the globe. This paper examines the experiences of SSPs for creating enterprises by disabled entrepreneurs in the context of a developed country. Some thematic assumptions have been made from this study on the issue of entrepreneurship development for disadvantaged people and the understandings of different service provisions. A qualitative approach employed to explore the experiences of three different SSP organisations in the United Kingdom. Data have been collected via interviews and grounded theory analysis has been used for thematic understandings. Later on, it linked to promote disabled entrepreneurs business resources through their service experiences from different SSPs. The authors also assumed that the mechanisms and the experiences of SSP provisions from developed country’s examples could help Bangladesh for developing entrepreneurship practices especially for disadvantaged and disabled people. This conceptual paper is also considering for some quality solutions about how and why SSP serves entrepreneurship solutions for the disabled people and will contribute to the knowledge and practice for developing future area of entrepreneurship research.

Year: 
Volume: 
XXXIV
Issue: 
1