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Entrepreneurial or Not?: Asymmetrical Business Models of UK Fashion Micro-Enterprises

Entrepreneurial or Not?: Asymmetrical Business Models of UK Fashion Micro-Enterprises
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Author(s): Chitra Buckley (London College of Fashion, UK)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 22
Source title: Sustainable Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9615-8.ch081

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Abstract

UK fashion micro-enterprises, often founded by creative individuals, need to be entrepreneurially oriented and develop a business model that sustains their growth during the critical early phase. Literature on this phase offers guidance in best practice and survival strategies for the operational challenges that emerge, however the business models that sustain enterprise development and provide the blueprint for growth strategies have not been examined. This chapter explores how micro-enterprises integrate entrepreneurial actions into their business models. By applying literature on best practice in fashion designer businesses and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to the business model concept, a conceptual framework is developed and serves as a point of reference to analyse the current business models of five micro-enterprises. The study finds that business models in this segment of the fashion sector are asymmetrical and EO emerges in some components of the business model and not others.

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