Barefoot entrepreneurs

Imas, J. Miguel; Wilson, Nick; Weston, Alia

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“…Their daily entrepreneuring is very much about becoming, and becoming is always a co-production between the entrepreneur, the other, and their historical and cultural contexts (Anderson et al, 2012). This resonates with critical entrepreneurship research that examines entrepreneurship as accomplished in and through actions in local contexts (Down & Warren, 2008), as well as with recent studies that have shown how dominant understandings of entrepreneurship are challenged through explorations of creative entrepreneuring in peripheral local positions (Imas, Wilson, & Weston, 2012). Our research acknowledges the creative power of entrepreneurship to 'create sociality in local settings', thereby enabling alternative ways of being in the world (Verduijn, Dey, Tedmanson & Essers, 2014).…”

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Liminal Entrepreneuring: The Creative Practices of Nascent Necessity Entrepreneurs

Garcia‐Lorenzo

Donnelly²,

Sell-Trujillo

et al. 2017

Organization Studies

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This paper contributes to creative entrepreneurship studies through exploring 'liminal entrepreneuring', i.e., the organization-creation entrepreneurial practices and narratives of individuals living in precarious conditions. Drawing on a processual approach to entrepreneurship and Turner's liminality concept, we study the transition from un(der)employment to entrepreneurship of 50 nascent necessity entrepreneurs (NNEs) in Spain, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The paper asks how these agents develop creative

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confidence: 88%

Liminal Entrepreneuring: The Creative Practices of Nascent Necessity Entrepreneurs

Garcia‐Lorenzo

Donnelly²,

Sell-Trujillo

et al. 2017

Organization Studies

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“…The foregoing conceptual notions are pertinent to the study of economic development amongst Indigenous groups, (Imas, Wilson & Weston, 2012;Peredo & Anderson, 2006) and can present unique managerial challenges for MNCs that seek to interact with Indigenous people. In Western Australia (WA), firms in the mining industry have taken an active role in engaging Indigenous owned companies and in doing so have implemented strategies which can be viewed as a reaction to their perceived CSR.…”

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Network position and identity: A language-based perspective on strategizing

Schepis¹,

Purchase²,

Ellis³

2014

Industrial Marketing Management

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Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Industrial marketing management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version will be subsequently published in Industrial marketing management, 2014, 10.1016/j.indmarman.2014.02.009 Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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“…We wished to generate an empathetic understanding in readers unlikely to be familiar with groups like the MAC (Brunwick & Coghlan, 2007;Cunliffe, 2010;Watson, 2012) and to challenge dominant understandings through contact with the other (see Barnard, 2011;Glass, 2012;Morris, 2012;Rimmer, 2010, for example), enabling marginalised voices to be heard (Imas, Wilson, & Weston, 2012), and remedying a 'apolitical reading of organizing' (Ybema, Yanow, Vels, & Kamsteeg, 2009, p.7).…”

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Organizing for Individuation: Alternative Organizing, Politics and New Identities

Reedy

King

Coupland

2016

Organization Studies

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Organization theorists have predominantly studied identity and organizing within the managed work organization. This frames organization as a structure within which identity work occurs, often as a means of managerial control. In our paper our contribution is to develop the concept of individuation pursued through prefigurative practices within alternative organizing to reframe this relation. We combine recent scholarship on alternative organizations and new social movements to provide a theoretical grounding for an ethnographic study of the prefigurative organizing practices and related identity work of an alternative group in a UK city. We argue that in such groups, identity, organizing and politics become a purposeful set of integrated processes aimed at the creation of new forms of life in the here and now, thus organizing is politics is identity. Our study presents a number of challenges and possibilities to scholars of organization, enabling them to extend their understanding of organization and identity in the contemporary world. Vignette 1: An introduction to the Midtown alternative sceneOn a cold and windswept evening in March we gathered at a small organic wholefood co-operative shop amongst insalubrious takeaways in one of the scruffier parts of Midtown. As we arrived, greetings were called, mugs of tea made, and soon 25 people were crammed into the room. Although a public meeting, many participants already knew each other. The 'formal' part of the evening began when those who had initiated the meeting, including Author 2, explained that they wanted to bring likeminded people together to forge closer ties and foster joint action. Each of us explained who we were, why we were there, and what group we belonged to (if any). This was 1 recorded on flip charts and minuted for later distribution. Although membership overlapped considerably, there were around twenty groups including environmental organizations, radical political parties, local activist groups, alternative food and craft retailing, arts and music groups; many belonged to several of these groups simultaneously.Most were young (between 25 and 40) and their appearance often reflected alternative youth sub-cultural norms -a 'hippyish' look for women, dreadlocks and goatee beards for men, although older attendees wore jumpers, t-shirts and jeans. Everyone seemed happy at a slightly ironic self-description of 'alternative', though deciding what this meant became a major debate. All agreed that it implied non-commercial and non-consumerist values with social/political/ethical aims and consensual democratic organizing. Concerns emerged about how difficult this was in practice, often due to lack of money or time.Despite the need for money, some argued that paid work or grants undermined autonomy and self-sufficiency. Whilst a few had full time jobs (usually in the public sector or with charities), many kept paid work to the minimum, desiring to live entirely 'off-grid'. Most wanted to engage with 'the community' to further political aims and t...

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Barefoot entrepreneurs

Cited by 99 publications

References 73 publications

Liminal Entrepreneuring: The Creative Practices of Nascent Necessity Entrepreneurs

Liminal Entrepreneuring: The Creative Practices of Nascent Necessity Entrepreneurs

Network position and identity: A language-based perspective on strategizing

Organizing for Individuation: Alternative Organizing, Politics and New Identities

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