citation_author
Engstrom, Craig
citation_volume
10
citation_publication_date
2012
citation_title
An Autoethnographic Account of Prosaic Entrepreneurship
citation_pdf_url
https://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/en/system/files/146-539-1-PB.pdf
citation_issue
1-2
citation_journal_title
Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
citation_issn
1532-5555
citation_firstpage
41
citation_lastpage
54
dcterms.title
An Autoethnographic Account of Prosaic Entrepreneurship
dcterms.creator
Engstrom
dcterms.subject
prosaic entrepreneurship, autoethnography, self-narrative, introspective analysis, identity
dcterms.description
In recent years, entrepreneurship scholars have begun studying entrepreneurship from social, prosaic, narrative, and discursive dimensions. These ―new movement‖ approaches privilege both business and non-business perspectives. Research in this domain of inquiry seeks to account for the everyday and mundane practices of social actors that can be characterized as entrepreneurial; therefore, prosaic approaches can de-center the narrative of entrepreneurship as comprised solely of a group of elite entrepreneurs. While researchers are encouraged to describe entrepreneurship from a life-story perspective, few scholars have used a self-narrative approach to writing about entrepreneurship. In this article, I use autoethnography to provide a personal account of entrepreneurship. I reflexively interrogate the ways in which I have reproduced, disrupted, benefited from, and been hindered by the dominant enterprise discourses in the United States. A prosaic approach using self-narrative, as demonstrated, is already engaged in a process of restorying entrepreneurship scholarship because it takes into account, among other things, the details of everyday entrepreneurial activity and is receptive to heterodox accounts (even stories that end in entrepreneurial failure).
dcterms.contributor
Engstrom
dcterms.date
2012
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Text
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text/html
dcterms.identifier
https://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/en/pub/6480
dcterms.abstract
In recent years, entrepreneurship scholars have begun studying entrepreneurship from social, prosaic, narrative, and discursive dimensions. These ―new movement‖ approaches privilege both business and non-business perspectives. Research in this domain of inquiry seeks to account for the everyday and mundane practices of social actors that can be characterized as entrepreneurial; therefore, prosaic approaches can de-center the narrative of entrepreneurship as comprised solely of a group of elite entrepreneurs. While researchers are encouraged to describe entrepreneurship from a life-story perspective, few scholars have used a self-narrative approach to writing about entrepreneurship. In this article, I use autoethnography to provide a personal account of entrepreneurship. I reflexively interrogate the ways in which I have reproduced, disrupted, benefited from, and been hindered by the dominant enterprise discourses in the United States. A prosaic approach using self-narrative, as demonstrated, is already engaged in a process of restorying entrepreneurship scholarship because it takes into account, among other things, the details of everyday entrepreneurial activity and is receptive to heterodox accounts (even stories that end in entrepreneurial failure).
dcterms.language
en
dcterms.modified
2021-10-23T13:20+02:00