Community-based entrepreneurial support system: A study on the Jain religion

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IIMB Management Review Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-19 DOI:10.1016/j.iimb.2026.100705

Gajendra Kumar, Ashish Pandey, Varadraj Bapat

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Abstract

This qualitative study investigates the community-based entrepreneurial support system within a religious community. Based on observations, field visits, secondary sources, and in-depth interviews of Jain community members, our findings offer a nuanced understanding of the role of family (Parivar), temple (Mandir), and community organisations in supporting entrepreneurship. New insights show how religious communities provide access to resources, social networks, and spiritual mentorship. The study contributes to literature in the social capital and entrepreneurial support system domains. It highlights a socially embedded, value-based entrepreneurial support system. The study also sheds light on the community-oriented Indian perspective of entrepreneurship, thereby supporting the broader objectives of the emerging Indian Knowledge System in the management discipline.

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基于社区的创业支持系统：耆那教研究

本定性研究调查了宗教社区内的社区创业支持系统。基于观察、实地考察、二手资料和对耆那教社区成员的深入访谈，我们的研究结果对家庭（Parivar）、寺庙（Mandir）和社区组织在支持创业方面的作用提供了细致入微的理解。新的见解显示了宗教团体如何提供资源、社会网络和精神指导。本研究对社会资本与创业支持系统领域的研究有一定的贡献。它突出了社会嵌入的、基于价值的创业支持系统。该研究还揭示了以社区为导向的印度企业家精神的视角，从而支持了管理学科中新兴的印度知识系统的更广泛目标。

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IIMB Management Review MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

5.90%

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审稿时长

68 days

期刊介绍： IIMB Management Review (IMR) is a quarterly journal brought out by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Addressed to management practitioners, researchers and academics, IMR aims to engage rigorously with practices, concepts and ideas in the field of management, with an emphasis on providing managerial insights, in a reader friendly format. To this end IMR invites manuscripts that provide novel managerial insights in any of the core business functions. The manuscript should be rigorous, that is, the findings should be supported by either empirical data or a well-justified theoretical model, and well written. While these two requirements are necessary for acceptance, they do not guarantee acceptance. The sole criterion for publication is contribution to the extant management literature.Although all manuscripts are welcome, our special emphasis is on papers that focus on emerging economies throughout the world. Such papers may either improve our understanding of markets in such economies through novel analyses or build models by taking into account the special characteristics of such economies to provide guidance to managers.