This special issue is concerned with entrepreneurial activities that occur at the 'margins of entrepreneurship'. Traditionally, many entrepreneurs have emerged from pariah groups at the margins of individual societies. Moreover, it would appear that entrepreneurship as an activity flourishes at the margins and frontiers of societies, cultures and regions, and at the edge of the 'known' and 'accepted'. The expanding academic discipline of entrepreneurship, or perhaps more appropriately the indiscipline, as it is a life theme (Bolton and Thompson, 2000), spans many academic and practical frontiers. Despite an inability to define logically exactly what entrepreneurship is, over the past three decades a broad consensus has emerged concerning the types of behaviours, practices and processes that constitute it.
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