The Entrepreneur as Hero?

Pilotta, Joseph J.

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“…Indeed, Berdayes and Murphy (2016) argue the logic of the individualisation of social problems has extended into the social sphere to the extent that contemporary society has become a ‘total market’ (4), and Rowlands and Rawolle (2013) argue that neoliberalism presumes to provide a complete and exclusive framework for ‘the achievement of personal success and, even, of happiness’ (263). It has become a ‘quasi-philosophy answering the questions, “why we are here” and “what should I do?”’ (Pilotta, 2016: 47). In economically rationalised neoliberal terms, the answer to this is simply ‘You are here for the market, and you should compete’ (Pilotta, 2016: 47).…”

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War, Heroes and Sacrifice: Masking Neoliberal Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lohmeyer

Taylor

2020

Critical Sociology

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The precarity and violation that has resulted from decades of neoliberal reforms have been made clear in the global COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in terms of access to healthcare and financial inequality. However, ideological discourses of individual heroics have been rapidly deployed, to patch up the damage done to neoliberal rhetoric. In this paper, we argue a critical sociological lens reveals something important about this violence of neoliberalism at this moment during the crisis. Analysing media articles that have considerable reach, availability and shareability, we interrogate the rhetorical framing of frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and uncover three significant themes: ‘celebrating “our” heroes’, ‘personal sacrifice’ and ‘the heroes of war’. We argue that the emerging field of the sociology of violence provides the means to expose the violence of neoliberalism in the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as identify the discursive apparatus that obscure the violation of neoliberalism more generally.

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War, Heroes and Sacrifice: Masking Neoliberal Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lohmeyer

Taylor

2020

Critical Sociology

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“…One is that innovations have increasingly become an important source of profit, and in this way have also helped to support the culture of the self‐entrepreneurial person whom Foucault wrote about. Another is the near cult of entrepreneurship that has developed during the last few decades, also exemplified by the growing focus on this topic in business schools (see Alvarez, ; Anderson & Warren, ; Pilotta, ). Flexibility, networks, and decentralization have become popular topics in the textbooks used in business schools (see Boltanski & Chiapello, ).…”

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Business, organization theory, and the current challenge of neocharisma

Betta

2019

Business and Society Review

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An argument is made in this article that there exists a trend in today's society toward a phenomenon that can tentatively be called neocharisma and that this trend poses important challenges to organization theory and the modern organization. This phenomenon, it is suggested, is expressed in today's intense pressure for innovation, something that makes it imperative to develop a distinction between constructive and destructive innovation. Organization theory has some difficulty in handling innovations, radical change, and irrationality, as a review of the literature shows. In order to better understand a phenomenon such as neocharisma, it is proposed that organizations be seen as embedded in society in a typology based on Max Weber's four types of social order (tradition, instrumental rationality, value rationality, and charisma). The article ends with a comparison between charisma and neocharisma, a discussion of what differentiates constructive from destructive innovations, and suggestions for future research related to neocharisma.

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“…In modernity, a person "has" a life story in the same sense as he has characteristics, goals, plans, values, and so on. All of these things can be adjusted into "I" as a result of the process of forming themselves (McAdams, 1996) A narrative discussion was also conducted by Pilotta (2016) who stated that an entrepreneur is a hero in the community. Entrepreneurs do the stages of the journey because he has dared to decide to take a different path from most people.…”

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Theoretical Study of The Life Story Narrative Personality Dynamics Based on Archetype in Indonesian Context Entrepreneurs

Wikantiyoso

Riyanti

Suryani

2019

JICP

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Understanding personality development of entrepreneurs is important in current entrepreneurial research. Previous studies have mentioned some perspectives towards a scientific understanding of entrepreneurship, through identification and in-depth examination of personality characteristics. These studies show that individual's function as a totality of personal characteristics (which involve biological, psychological, and cultural levels related to personal narratives) is needed. Some experts point out that success can be explained in the dynamics of the daily journey of the business persons than in trying to explain them into personality categories.The growth of entrepreneurial personality can be understood in accordance with the identity of the community and local culture. The wholeness of a person being an entrepreneur is a process of forming and revealing the development of an entrepreneurial personality. Personality growth will be revealed along the journey of life, following the same pattern in a narrative life story that is influenced by socio-cultural aspects. These patterns can be expressed in archetype. Entrepreneurs also share a set of cultural and social values, some of which are based on the values held by the community. However, research on entrepreneurial personality as a whole in the context of Indonesian culture, is still needed This study aims to look at entrepreneurship as the dynamic's perspective of the personality narrative life stories and archetype of the cultural context in Indonesia. In addition, this study seeks non-economic factors, such as entrepreneurial personality and culture, affect the dynamics of the performance of a startup business.Through the study of archetype theory and narrative life story, it can be proposed a measuring tool that can explain the concept of entrepreneurial archetype personality in the Indonesian context. This archetype personality measurement tool uses a life story perspective that sees the dynamics of entrepreneurial journey as an archetype hero journey

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The Entrepreneur as Hero?

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

War, Heroes and Sacrifice: Masking Neoliberal Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

War, Heroes and Sacrifice: Masking Neoliberal Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Business, organization theory, and the current challenge of neocharisma

Theoretical Study of The Life Story Narrative Personality Dynamics Based on Archetype in Indonesian Context Entrepreneurs

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