Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship: A Second Movements in Entrepreneurship Book

Posted: 4 Nov 2009

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Daniel Hjorth

Copenhagen Business School

Chris Steyaert

University of St. Gallen - SEPS: Economics and Political Sciences

Date Written: 2004

Abstract

This book is part of a series that seeks to promoteentrepreneurship by exploring new ideas and research practices. Thevolumetakes up and applies ideas from anthropology and literary studies,new theoretical stances such as poststructuralism, postmodernism, and feminism,and especially new explorations of the "linguistic turn" found innarrative and discursive approaches. Three key questions are addressed: (1) How do narrative and discursivepractices work in entrepreneurship studies? (2) What are the consequences forentrepreneurship of adopting new language-based approaches? and (3) How canscholars be inspired and motivated by these approaches? These questions reflectan interest in metaphor and the cultural and social context of organizing.Entrepreneurship is seen as a social rather thana business process; it isembodied in stories and self-narratives. The anthology concludes with threeresponse-essays to the book as a whole. (TNM) Table of Contents Introduction, Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert The Prosaics of Entrepreneurship, Chris Steyaert A Moment in Time, Sami Boutaiba Driven Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Taxi Owners in Caracas, MonicaLindh de Montoya 'Going Against the Grain. . .' Construction of Entrepreneurial Identitythrough Narratives, Lene Foss Storytelling to be Real: Narrative, Legitimacy Building and Venturing,Ellen O’Connor The Devil is in the e-tale: Forms and Structures in theEntrepreneurial Narratives, Robert Smith and Alistair R. Anderson Crime and Assumptions in Entrepreneurship, Alf Rehn and SaaraTaalas The Dramas of Consulting and Counselling the Entrepreneur, TorbenDamgaard, Jesper Piihl and Kim Klyver Masculine Entrepreneurship — the Gnosjö Discourse in a Feminist Perspective,Katarina Pettersson Quilting a Feminist Map to Guide the Study of Women Entrepreneurs,Kathryn Campbell Towards Genealogic Storytelling in Entrepreneurship, DanielHjorth Readings Reading the Storybook of Life: Telling the Right Story Versus Telling theStory Rightly, Jerome Katz The Edge Defines the (W)hole: Saying What Entrepreneurship is (Not),William B. Gartner Relational Constructionism and Entrepreneurship: Some Key Notes,Dian-Marie Hosking in Dialogue with Daniel Hjorth

Keywords: Discourse analysis, Linguistics, Narrative analysis, Research methods, Methodologies, Theories, Research design

Suggested Citation

Hjorth, Daniel and Steyaert, Chris, Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship: A Second Movements in Entrepreneurship Book (2004). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1496119

Daniel Hjorth (Contact Author)

Copenhagen Business School ( email )

Solbjerg Plads 3
Frederiksberg C, DK - 2000
Denmark

Chris Steyaert

University of St. Gallen - SEPS: Economics and Political Sciences ( email )

Rosenbergstrasse 51
St. Gallen, St. Gallen CH-9000
Switzerland
0041 - 71 - 224 26 40 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://www.opsy.unisg.ch/org/opsy/web.nsf/wwwPubInhalteGer/Prof.+Dr.+Chris+Steyaert?opendocument

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