The need for critical and counter-hegemonic accounts of poverty and impoverishment in the formation of entrepreneurial leadership

Abstract

In this article, the author reflects on the stories and other discourses on poverty and impoverishment expressed by the participants in two social and entrepreneurial leadership training processes, where the author participated as a facilitator in 2015. The author notices the need for new entrepreneurs -in a poverty situation, to have the ability to critically question the traditional monopolistic enterprise system, which generates, spreads and reproduces poverty and systematic impoverishment, as it is part of capitalism. By knowing the origins and agents that trigger poverty, entrepreneurs can explore different options to the capitalist system, in social economy.