Paper presented at the 8th International Conference in Critical
Management Studies; 10 Jul 2013-12 Jul 2013; The University of
Manchester. Manchester, United Kingdom.
The current crisis has created a new spirit of resisting the main
business models that affect the way in which people work and generate
new businesses. In particular, the neoliberal narrative of
entrepreneurial wealth and innovation has been superseded (and
challenged) by narratives that emphasise the resilience and resistance
of communities across part of Europe. Like in the case of Argentina’s
financial crisis, these communities appear to alter the way in which we
understand entrepreneurship embracing critical discourses that act and
enact forms of resisting the cannons of how to generate, produce and
work. Here, we found new forms of entrepreneurial activities that
reflect practices forgotten in Europe and which are usually associated
to barefoot entrepreneurs and indigenous entrepreneurs. Thus, these
epitomise a new spirit of entrepreneurship embedded in insurrection and
revolt.
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