Collective entrepreneurship has been found to alleviate extreme poverty by helping poor individuals integrate into their societies and overcome their multiple intertwined liabilities. We complement this line of inquiry by exploring the conditions under which group structures may instead reinforce economic and gendered poverty constraints.

We conducted grounded-theoretical interviews with 104 women entrepreneurs operating in farming cooperatives and non-farm groups in war-torn South-West Cameroon. Analysing our data through a constitutive lens, we found that discipline, the extent to which rules determine and control individual behaviours, helps poor women overcome extreme economic constraints but prevents them from attaining prosperity and emancipation.

人们发现集体创业可以通过帮助穷人融入社会并克服其多重相互交织的责任来减轻极端贫困。我们通过探索群体结构可能会加强经济和性别贫困限制的条件来补充这一调查路线。

我们对在饱受战争蹂躏的喀麦隆西南部的农业合作社和非农业团体中经营的 104 名女企业家进行了扎实的理论访谈。通过构成性视角分析我们的数据，我们发现纪律，即规则决定和控制个人行为的程度，可以帮助贫困妇女克服极端的经济限制，但会阻止她们获得繁荣和解放。