In this study, we move beyond the predominant focus entrepreneurship researchers have put on the acquisition of financial capital from professional investors by exploring how, and with what effects, entrepreneurs can mobilize all required resources—financial, human, physical, and social—from local communities. Our temporal analysis of the resource mobilization processes of seven cases of community-based enterprises (CBEs) reveals four sets of activities with distinct goals and effects, which explain how entrepreneurs can meet or even exceed their resource mobilization goals by mobilizing a greater variety of resources from a broader base of resource providers. Importantly, the findings show how entrepreneurs can achieve a multiplier effect meaning that they can perpetuate the inflow of significant amounts of unsolicited resources by continuously engaging in activities targeted at creating a sense of identification and ownership, which require comparatively little extra effort and resource inputs. We synthesize our findings in a framework of community resourcefulness in new venture creation. This framework adds a new perspective of resourcefulness as “getting more from many,” and demonstrates that resourceful behavior is not necessarily about individuals' ability to respond to situational constraints but also about their ability to recognize and seize situational resource potentials. Our findings have important implications for our understanding of resourcefulness in entrepreneurship and the nascent body of literature on community-based enterprises.

在这项研究中，我们超越了企业家精神的研究重点，即通过探索企业家如何以及在何种影响下从本地调动所有必需的资源（金融，人力，物力和社会资源），从专业投资者那里获取金融资本。社区。我们对七个案例的社区企业（CBE）的资源动员过程的时间分析揭示了四组具有不同目标和效果的活动，这些活动解释了企业家如何通过动员更多种类的资源来实现甚至超越其资源动员目标来自更广泛的资源提供商。重要的，调查结果表明，企业家如何实现事半功倍的效果，这意味着他们可以通过持续从事旨在产生认同感和主人翁意识的活动来使大量未经请求的资源永续存在，而这需要相对较少的额外努力和资源投入。我们在新创企业的社区资源丰富性的框架中综合了我们的发现。该框架为“资源丰富”提供了新的视角，即“从很多人那里获得更多收益”，并证明了机智的行为并不一定与个人应对情境约束的能力有关，而是与他们认识和抓住情境资源潜力的能力有关。