Turning hustlers into entrepreneurs, and social needs into market demands: Corporate-community encounters in Nairobi, Kenya

Geoforum

Volumn 59, Issue , 2015, Pages 228-239

  Thieme, Tatiana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate community encounters; Entrepreneurship; Hustle economy; Informality; Urban sanitation; Youth

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENTREPRENEUR; INFORMAL SECTOR; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LIBERALIZATION; SANITATION; SERVICE PROVISION; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA];

EID: 85027941906     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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