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CONVIVIALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMUNITIES AND BUSINESS NETWORKS IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY: AN EXPLORATORY RESEARCH PROJECT

Simone Guercini, Silvia Ranfagni
  • LanguageENG
  • URLhttp://db.koreascholar.com/Article/Detail/299240
Global Fashion Management Conference
2015 Global Fashion Management Conference at Florence (2015.06)
pp.289-295
글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 (Global Alliance of Marketing & Management Associations)
Abstract

Conviviality is an interdisciplinary concept and a key phenomenon in the entrepreneurial communities. Entrepreneurial communities are social units that share values, experiences, emotions, rituals and traditions. They give rise to personal contact networks that are sets of formal or informal individual relationships. Conviviality means sharing, openness and participation; in this sense, it can be a tool to foster, animate and amalgamate a community. Thus, it can increase social relations that stably bind individuals and thus, becomes a source of business relations. Drawing from literature analysis and a case of a fashion entrepreneurial community, we propose to investigate how conviviality create an integration between social and business networks.

Author
  • Simone Guercini(University of Florence, Italy)
  • Silvia Ranfagni(University of Florence, Italy)