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Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
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.
Voices from the South of Spain
Voices from the South of Spain
Lucia Sell-Trujillo. September 2014.
The social construction of the Spanish grasshopper can only be understood as opposed to the northern European ant – the one whose door the grasshopper calls to ask for a bailout when the winter comes.
Lucia Sell-Trujillo. September 2014.
The social construction of the Spanish grasshopper can only be understood as opposed to the northern European ant – the one whose door the grasshopper calls to ask for a bailout when the winter comes.
Hard(ly) at Work
Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo. October 2014.
For most of us, having a pay check at the end of the month means much more that having resources. Being employed positions us in a socially constructed structure that validates our existence and makes us feel useful. It enables us to manage our life; it positions us as independent beings, despite lacking the freedom.
For most of us, having a pay check at the end of the month means much more that having resources. Being employed positions us in a socially constructed structure that validates our existence and makes us feel useful. It enables us to manage our life; it positions us as independent beings, despite lacking the freedom.
'I just want a job: The untold stories of entrepreneurship'
Garcia-Lorenzo, L., Sell-Trujillo, L., and Donnelly, P. (2014)
In: Izak, M, Hitchen, L. and Anderson, D. (Eds.) Untold Stories in
Organisations. London: Taylor and Francis. Pp 143-167.
In this chapter, we explore the untold stories of Spanish and Irish necessity entrepreneurs to better understand the process of becoming an entrepreneur. We illustrate how necessity entrepreneurs don't recognize themselves in the institutionalized entrepreneur narrative as empowered, creative and independent individuals since it is necessity, not opportunity that pushes them to become entrepreneurial.
Garcia-Lorenzo, L., Sell-Trujillo, L., and Donnelly, P. (2014)
In: Izak, M, Hitchen, L. and Anderson, D. (Eds.) Untold Stories in
Organisations. London: Taylor and Francis. Pp 143-167.
In this chapter, we explore the untold stories of Spanish and Irish necessity entrepreneurs to better understand the process of becoming an entrepreneur. We illustrate how necessity entrepreneurs don't recognize themselves in the institutionalized entrepreneur narrative as empowered, creative and independent individuals since it is necessity, not opportunity that pushes them to become entrepreneurial.
Spanish Creativity and Resistance in times of Austerity and Crisis
Spanish Creativity and Resistance in times of Austerity and Crisis
Dr. Miguel Imas and Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo (Seville, 2013)
Funded by Kingston University & Santander Research Mobility Scheme
As a consequence of the financial crisis, Spaniards have had to witness profound transformations related to the austerity measures and economic scarcity. As a consequence, social conditions and relations have undergone considerable changes, to the point of transforming the outlook of the subject and eventually, the political sphere. This research engages in close participation in the everyday life of particular communities: partaking in the general assemblies organised by the 15M social movement; witnessing social and artistic actions organised by the movement flo6x8; and engaging in community life through Corralas and neighbourhood of Seville. Our preliminary ethnographies tell complex and interwoven tales of the deteriorating living conditions they are experiencing in this region, the practices developed by the communities and families to counter the discourse and measures of austerity and the capacity shown by people to generate creative strategies to supersede and combat their precarious situation.
Dr. Miguel Imas and Dr. Lucia Sell-Trujillo (Seville, 2013)
Funded by Kingston University & Santander Research Mobility Scheme
As a consequence of the financial crisis, Spaniards have had to witness profound transformations related to the austerity measures and economic scarcity. As a consequence, social conditions and relations have undergone considerable changes, to the point of transforming the outlook of the subject and eventually, the political sphere. This research engages in close participation in the everyday life of particular communities: partaking in the general assemblies organised by the 15M social movement; witnessing social and artistic actions organised by the movement flo6x8; and engaging in community life through Corralas and neighbourhood of Seville. Our preliminary ethnographies tell complex and interwoven tales of the deteriorating living conditions they are experiencing in this region, the practices developed by the communities and families to counter the discourse and measures of austerity and the capacity shown by people to generate creative strategies to supersede and combat their precarious situation.
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