This study explores emancipatory entrepreneurship in postcolonial economies where Western bureaucratic and Indigenous traditional systems simultaneously influence entrepreneurial activities. In Kumasi Ghana, the reconstruction of the Kejetia Marketplace was funded by foreign investment and required formal business registration, effectively excluding informal entrepreneurs. Using process tracing, we analyze how informal entrepreneurs leveraged various forms of Indigenous capital and engaged interstitial actors to convert it into actionable capital within the Western system. This process enabled them to overcome their initial exclusion as they built a series of emancipatory structures, culminating in the elimination of the constraint of formalization in the New Kejetia and opening new opportunities for inclusion. Our findings reveal the significance of Indigenous systems in navigating bureaucratic constraints, contributing to the emancipatory entrepreneurship literature by showing how postcolonial contexts both motivate and shape the emancipatory efforts of marginalized entrepreneurs.

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后殖民经济中的解放创业：Kejetia 市场中制度体系的冲突

本研究探讨了后殖民经济中的解放创业，其中西方官僚和土著传统制度同时影响创业活动。在加纳库马西，Kejetia Marketplace 的重建由外国投资资助，需要正式的商业登记，实际上将非正式企业家排除在外。使用过程追踪，我们分析了非正式企业家如何利用各种形式的土著资本并参与其中，将其转化为西方体系内的可作资本。这个过程使他们能够克服最初的排斥，因为他们建立了一系列解放结构，最终消除了新 Kejetia 的正规化限制，并为包容开辟了新的机会。我们的研究结果揭示了土著制度在驾驭官僚主义约束方面的重要性，通过展示后殖民背景如何激励和塑造边缘化企业家的解放努力，为解放创业文献做出了贡献。