In times of economic downturn, entrepreneurship discourse returns to the forefront. In this context, in Brazil, there is a new economic and social phenomenon going on: street ventures as family firms. Once marginalized and normally related to informal work, now they perform activities in the market that allow them to offer higher quality products and to reach consumers with higher purchasing power. Aiming to better understand the phenomenon, this study explores the main aspects that characterize entrepreneurship, its motivations, knowledge and capacity for innovation. A participant observation was carried out analyzing the operation of 44 food trucks and in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 food trucks owners. Results indicate that, unlike the literature premise, the first entrant food trucks were Schumpeterian entrepreneurs. However, there was a dissemination of knowledge and they lost this condition. As a result, suggestions are presented to these entrepreneurs return to the Schumpeterian condition. This paper advances in theoretical knowledge by identifying that the Schumpeterian innovation of this street entrepreneurship is highly geographic-contextual. It possible can lead to a decrease in the risk of business failure in places in which knowledge is disseminated as innovation.
RESUMO Este artigo tem por objetivo explorar a visão de acadêmicos da área de Marketing sobre o escopo conceitual do Marketing. Através de uma pesquisa exploratória, foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores da disciplina. Tendo como intuito analisar a visão dos mesmos sobre questões que ainda hoje permeiam o debate acadêmico da área: o escopo do Marketing – e a necessidade ou não de sua revisão, seus limites de atuação, a dicotomia entre teoria e prática e, acima de tudo, a questão acerca da cientificidade ou não da disciplina. Pela visão dos seus acadêmicos, o artigo visa ampliar a discussão sobre como fortalecer a disciplina de Marketing, gerando insights que possibilitem avanços para o seu próprio corpo teórico. De maneira geral, foi possível observar que a visão predominante entre os acadêmicos pesquisados é de que o Marketing não precisa reduzir seu escopo teórico, mas sim aproximar os achados de suas pesquisas da prática, das questões reais do dia-a-dia da sociedade.
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