Moving too fast? Addressing temporality and acceleration in Portuguese business ventures scaling

Abstract

In recent years, Portugal has been increasingly credited as an emergent European entrepreneurial and technological hub, a rising and promising start-up nation. An ethnographic study was developed in one of the most successful start-up ventures operating in Portugal, with the goal of scrutinizing policy effectiveness in an employment creation and relations perspective. Considering the effect temporality regimes and acceleration are increasingly considered to have as new business ventures socioeconomic base, the study focus was placed on speeding-up implications, namely on how actors experience speed as infrastructural base of employment relations.

Indonesian sociography: analysis of themes and the implications for strengthening high school sociology learning in Indonesia

“…This collection of monographs contained reviews and reflections on the following literary works: (1) the origins of the working class (Felski, 2022); (2) survivors of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war in 1971 (Mookherjee, 2022); (3) the strategy of 'The #OneLess campaign pilot project' in initiating younger generation to reproduce knowledge, increase awareness-sensitivity, and perform transformative practices on environmental issues (Vitellone, 2022); (4) a diary about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone during the occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic (Freeman, 2022); (5) the analysis of historical urbanization study, liberalism, and fascism in cities (Gassner, 2022); (6) gender feminist evaluation in areas intersecting with crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brigstocke, et al, 2022); and (7) the strategies for compiling monographs through poetry, fiction, memoirs/diaries, and bibliographies (Edkins, 2022;Smith, 2022;Watson, 2022;Shelton, 2022;Engle, 2022;Berlant and Stewart, 2022). Another sociography monograph was produced by Coelho (2023), where ethnographic outputs were presented on start-up (an early-stage venture) in a local business community in Portugal, which had the greatest growth and visibility in the last three years. From this context, the policy company had various implications for relations between actors (workers) and the speed of work.…”