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Between unemployment and entrepreneurship: The liminal transitions of EU necessity entrepreneurs
Between unemployment and entrepreneurship: The liminal transitions of EU necessity entrepreneurs
We focus on situated entrepreneurial stories from Spain, Ireland and the UK drawn from ethnographic research. While governments and institutions, along with the media, promote a particular narrative –the empowered individual who ‘puts an innovative product in the market’– to encourage people out of unemployment by becoming more entrepreneurial, our interviewees do not recognize themselves in this institutionalised narrative. It is necessity, rather than opportunity (Hessels et al, 2008), that is pushing, rather than pulling (Amit and Muller, 1995; Gilad and Levine, 1986; Storey, 1982), them to become self-employed. The process is also experienced as more fragmented and fraught with difficulties than the official narrative outlines. Forced to create their own paid employment, they are ‘necessity entrepreneurs’ who wished they had the option of secure employment. We make explicit their liminal experiences in the transitory state between employment, unemployment and entrepreneurship. By engaging with these alternative experiences of the entrepreneurship process, we hope to: “access deeper organiz[ing] realities, closely linked to [people’s] experiences” (Gabriel, 1999: 270); complement the dominant understanding of entrepreneurship present in most research, institutional and media contexts (Jones and Spicer, 2005; Kenny and Scriver, 2012); and expand our understanding of entrepreneurship as a critical process with implications for social change and innovation (Dey and Steyaert, 2010, 2012).
9th International Conference in Critical Management Studies
Stream: Critical Entrepreneurship Studies
University of Leicester, UK, 8-10 July 2015
The liminal transitions of Irish and Spanish necessity entrepreneurs
The liminal transitions of Irish and Spanish necessity entrepreneurs.
Lucia García-Lorenzo, Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Paul Donnelly. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Ethnography symposium (2014).
Spanish and Irish necessity entrepreneurs to better understand the process of becoming an
entrepreneur. Working with narratives, media articles, and policy documents, we illustrate how
necessity entrepreneurs do not recognize themselves in the institutionalized entrepreneur narrative
as empowered, creative and independent individuals. It is necessity, not opportunity that is pushing,
not pulling, them to become entrepreneurial. The transition process is also experienced as more
fragmented than official narratives outline. In exposing these liminal stories, the paper aims to
expand our understanding of entrepreneurship, presenting a more nuanced view of both
entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process.
“Les Misérables, Deuxième Partie, Insurrection and Resistance at the Heart of Entrepreneurship”
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.xxxx
See more here: Entrepreneurship as resistance
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.xxxx
See more here: Entrepreneurship as resistance
Re-imagining Organisation from the European Precariat: The Emerging Creative-Resistence Organisation.
CONFERENCE. 19 – 20 September, Seville University, Seville
Dr. Miguel Imas, Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Dr. Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Dr. Paul Donnelly,
The European financial crisis and the subsequent introduction of austerity programmes, following an imposed model of economic recovery from the IMF and the European Central Bank, have caused social and emotional meltdown in a large number of urban and rural communities. In particular, communities at the periphery of Europe have suffered the most, with some experiencing over 50% unemployment, along with the destruction of social and housing benefits, as well as a deterioration in their overall quality of life. At the same time, people have come to show an incredible resilience, résistance and creativity in response to these austerity measures, (re-)creating spontaneous, improvised and highly challenging ways of organising – from occupation of factories in Greece to buildings in Spain, from artistic interventions to alternative currencies – to express, reflect and critically question the current socio-economic system. All of these practices reflect a desire to act and enact new forms of collective participation and co-collaboration based on solidarity and other community integrative acts that can transcend the current discourses of austerity under the umbrella of economic neoliberalism.
This seminar, organised by the University of Seville and Kingston University, attempts to engage with these emerging organising activities, giving a space for an intellectual debate on these discourses and practices to challenge the current theoretical representations on how people (re-)organise, (re-) create their spaces, and enact new ways of interacting.
Dr. Miguel Imas, Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo, Dr. Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Dr. Paul Donnelly,
The European financial crisis and the subsequent introduction of austerity programmes, following an imposed model of economic recovery from the IMF and the European Central Bank, have caused social and emotional meltdown in a large number of urban and rural communities. In particular, communities at the periphery of Europe have suffered the most, with some experiencing over 50% unemployment, along with the destruction of social and housing benefits, as well as a deterioration in their overall quality of life. At the same time, people have come to show an incredible resilience, résistance and creativity in response to these austerity measures, (re-)creating spontaneous, improvised and highly challenging ways of organising – from occupation of factories in Greece to buildings in Spain, from artistic interventions to alternative currencies – to express, reflect and critically question the current socio-economic system. All of these practices reflect a desire to act and enact new forms of collective participation and co-collaboration based on solidarity and other community integrative acts that can transcend the current discourses of austerity under the umbrella of economic neoliberalism.
This seminar, organised by the University of Seville and Kingston University, attempts to engage with these emerging organising activities, giving a space for an intellectual debate on these discourses and practices to challenge the current theoretical representations on how people (re-)organise, (re-) create their spaces, and enact new ways of interacting.
“Les Misérables, Deuxième Partie, Insurrection and Resistance at the Heart of Entrepreneurship”
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.
See more here: Entrepreneurship as resistance
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.
See more here: Entrepreneurship as resistance
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