Critical thinking and the cultural myth of the entrepreneur
by Laura Pinto
Our Schools/Our Selves, 16(1) (85), 69-84.
The Apprentice: A critical approach to media portrayal of business in the classroom.
by Laura Pinto
Orbit, 35 (2). 31-33
The Donald Trump illusion: Exploding the entrepreneurial myth in business education.
by Laura Pinto
Invited paper, CCPA Monitor, 13 (8), 48-50
Appel à contributions : Entreprises et déviance - Petits arrangements et gros scandales
Deadline : 7 septembre 2012
Revue Terrains et Travaux
Scandales financiers, catastrophes sanitaires, désastres écologiques... beaucoup de situations ont donné lieu, ces dernières années, à la mise en cause d'entreprises, de leurs patrons et/ou de certains de leurs employés. L'affaire Kerviel, la crise du Médiator ou encore le scandale des prothèses PIP comptent ainsi parmi les cas les plus médiatiques de mises en accusation récentes d’entreprises. Par ailleurs, sans être portées sur la place publique, bien d’autres pratiques engendrent régulièrement des litiges plus locaux, à l’échelle d’un secteur industriel, d’une société, ou même d’un service (optimisation fiscale, corruption, travail « en perruque »…).
Ce numéro de Terrains & Travaux entend aborder la « déviance d’entreprise » en rendant compte de la pluralité des formes de dénonciation des pratiques des entreprises en tant que personnes morales, comme des pratiques en entreprise (maquillage des comptes, délits d’initiés, arrangements avec les autorités, larcins, dissimulation de fautes professionnelles etc.). Il vise ainsi à rassembler des contributions mettant en lumière les fondements, les formes et les effets de la mise en cause des entreprises en tant qu’institutions économiques et/ou des individus qui constituent les maillons de ces organisations.
En préférant le terme « déviance » à celui de « délinquance », nous souhaitons ouvrir cet appel à des articles qui ne porteront pas seulement sur des actes dénoncés dans le cadre d’une procédure judiciaire, mais aussi sur des comportements stigmatisés à l’aune de normes morales n’ayant pas (encore) de traduction juridique. Les contributions pourront dans ce cadre distinguer les dommages proprement économiques de ceux qui ne le sont pas, et repérer l’importance des arguments économiques dans les discours dénonciateurs. En effet, à la différence des scandales financiers, les crises sanitaires ou environnementales portent certes sur des dommages qui ne sont pas (ou pas principalement) d’ordre économique, mais la mise en cause des entreprises repose néanmoins souvent sur la dénonciation des risques qu’elles ont pris pour satisfaire des velléités de profits. En rassemblant des articles s’appuyant sur de solides approches empiriques (travaux ethnographiques, historiques…) l’ambition de ce numéro sera, à cet égard, de dessiner les contours et les spécificités de la « déviance économique » et de repérer d’éventuelles évolutions temporelles dans ses manifestations.
Depuis la description des pratiques jugées déviantes jusqu’à l'examen des initiatives de régulation, en passant par l'étude des modalités d'action des « entrepreneurs de la dénonciation » et les référentiels normatifs qu’ils mobilisent pour justifier la critique, les contributions pourront donc aborder la thématique de la déviance d’entreprise sous des angles très variés. Ouvert à des travaux portant sur des entreprises de toutes tailles (grandes entreprises – y compris multinationales – PME ou TPE), ce numéro pourra rassembler des articles s’inscrivant, à titre indicatif et non exhaustif, dans les trois axes suivants :
1) La déviance en action : acteurs, motifs et appuis des pratiques jugées déviantes ;
2) La déviance dénoncée : travail de mise en cause des comportements déviants, et litiges (affaires, scandales...) consécutifs ;
3) Les intermédiaires de la déviance : acteurs et instruments venant soutenir ou au contraire entraver les comportements jugés déviants (consultants, contrôleurs...).
Les articles, de 40 000 signes maximum (espaces et notes compris), devront parvenir sous forme électronique aux coordinatrices du numéro avant le 7 septembre 2012 aux adresses suivantes :
Pauline Barraud de Lagerie : p.barraud@cso.cnrs.fr
Marie Trespeuch : marie.trespeuch@orange.com
La revue accueille, par ailleurs, des notes critiques sur le thème, ainsi que des articles hors dossier.
Download (.pdf) CODATO, Adriano. The State, institutions and private interests: two logics of Brazilian corporatism (1930-1945 and 1964-1985)?
published in Perissinotto, Renato Monseff (ed.). Entrepreneurs, State and Interest Representation in Brazil (1889-1990). New York (NY - EUA): Nova Science Publishers, 2003, p. 115-136.
The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the ways in which private interests engage with the Brazilian State... more The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the ways in which private interests engage with the Brazilian State apparatus in two distinct historical moments: during the Estado Novo and during the period of the military dictatorship. With regard to the first experience, I analyze the institution that substituted the houses of political representatives (at the state and federal levels) that were made extinct by the 1937 Constitution: the Conselhos Administrativos dos estados (CAEs). In relation to the latter moment, I discuss the predominance, in the area of economic policy, of a considerable number of inter-ministry councils, and their prevailing role in the decision-making system. These two cases, which are particularly illustrative of the forms taken by State-society relationships in Brazil, exemplify the complementary modes of "economic corporatism" and "political corporatism" in non-democratic contexts.
Becoming, being and belonging - Entrepreneurial establishments: alternative views on the social construction of entrepreneurship.
by Robert Smith
Wade, G., Smith, R., Anderson, A, R., (2003)
MMU Working paper, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Working paper Series WP03/17December 2003.
Abstract not available. Abstract not available.
Looking Back at Scottish Travellers as Nomadic Entrepreneurs.
by Robert Smith
Smith, R. (2009)
International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 3(3), 237-255.
This qualitative paper adopts a historical approach and reports on desk research conducted by the author using a... more This qualitative paper adopts a historical approach and reports on desk research conducted by the author using a mixture of internet based research backed up by a critical reading of published writings on the travelling people of Scotland. This blend of the old and the new allows the author to take a critical look back through time at a proud entrepreneurial people. Another innovative data source used is that of Traditional Scottish Ballads and songs. The gist of the paper is that travelling people can (and deserve) to be viewed as an entrepreneurial people because epistemologically and ontologically there is congruence between the entrepreneurial traits and entrepreneurial narratives of Travellers and the settled people of their native Scotland.
Observing community-based entrepreneurship and social networking at play in an urban village setting’,
by Robert Smith
Smith, R. (2011)
Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 12(1), 62–81.
Abstract
Entrepreneurship is a manifestation of change and is regarded as vital sources of jobs, business... more
Abstract
Entrepreneurship is a manifestation of change and is regarded as vital sources of jobs, business dynamism and innovation. However, entrepreneurship is a social activity which occurs in time and space (not just in a geographical sense). Entrepreneurship is seen as a natural, organic process that follows the manifestation of change. There is of course an assumption that this change will occur naturally but what happens if as is increasingly the norm a process of planned change interrupts the natural order of progression. In this observational study, we examine the influence of socio-cultural factors on the evolution of community based entrepreneurial activity in an urban
village setting. Using the social metrics of home, habitus and habituation this study examines how community based entrepreneurial activity develops when there is a rupture in the natural societal order caused by the building of a mono-cultural middle class enclave. One cannot get any closer to the social in entrepreneurship than to study entrepreneurial activity in one’s home environment. Studying entrepreneurial activity in a setting where the social context has been fixed permits us to investigate the embededdness of the entrepreneurial process in a naturally occurring environment
because the planned environment allows us to comment upon a social experiment in progress. Preliminary findings indicate that when the natural order is interrupted entrepreneurial activity becomes disjointed and finds new avenues of emergence as community based entrepreneurial activity in which business is facilitated by social networking and entrepreneurial identity is socially constructed through play.
Keywords
Entrepreneurship, Economic sociology, Economic geography, Social Entrepreneurship, Societal Entrepreneurship, Social Networking.
After the fall: Developing a conceptual script-based model of shame in narratives of entrepreneurs in crisis!
by Robert Smith
Smith, R., McElwee, G., (2011)
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 31(1/2), 91 – 109.
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of shame in entrepreneurship.... more
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of shame in entrepreneurship. Extant research in relation to the entrepreneurial process has tended to concentrate upon the entrepreneur as hero and other positive aspects of the process. Consequently, the darker sides of the entrepreneurial personality and enterprise culture such as the role of shame remain a relatively under researched facet of entrepreneurship theory. Despite this dearth of actual empirical studies, the negative aspects of entrepreneurial behaviour associated with the “flawed hero model of entrepreneurship” are implicitly understood. These negative aspects include hubris, tragedy, narcissism, over-stretching, hedonism, personality disorders, status anxiety, self-centeredness, destructive relationships, alcoholism, suicide and the most heinous of all, business failure.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper considers the deeply social phenomenon of shame on the entrepreneur and his or her world by developing a conceptual model of shame. The social script of shame is analysed as found in novels and as found in real life newspaper reports of such epic tragedies, using a chosen methodology of narrative analysis.
Findings – The world portrayed in narrative is very much a “man’s world” in which shame is a personal construct, a penance to be endured or ended and in the process a narrative script is developed. Shame is a deeply personal cognitive emotion easier to study in narrative than in person. From the stories of flawed heroes we construct a holistic model of possible entrepreneurial trajectories that take cognisance of wellbeing issues and cover the unspoken events that occur after a fall from grace. But why should we expect the story to end with the entrepreneur in crisis staring into the abyss?
Originality/value – Little previous work has been undertaken to explore entrepreneurial shame using both the entrepreneurship literature and narrative analysis.
Keywords - Entrepreneurs, Reasoning, Thinking, Personality, Narratives.
"Coğrafi muğlaklık, köken mitolojisi ve bir 'eğlence periferisi' hikayesi" (Geographical fuzziness, mythology of origins and the story of an 'entertainment periphery') Istanbul Kent Kültürü Dergisi (Istanbul Journal of Urban Culture) No: 62, s./p. 55
by Volkan Aytar
"Coğrafi muğlaklık, köken mitolojisi ve bir 'eğlence periferisi' hikayesi" (Geographical fuzziness, mythology of origins and the story of an 'entertainment periphery') Istanbul Kent Kültürü Dergisi (Istanbul Journal of Urban Culture) No: 62, s./p. 55 - Published part of Istanbul Journal of Culture's special issue on "Entertainment in Istanbul" this article discusses the story of spatially concentrated 'entertainment periphery' to dismiss Beyoglu/Pera-centrist perspectives to Istanbul's entertainment and leisure consumption.
Published part of Istanbul Journal of Culture's special issue on "Entertainment in Istanbul" this article... more Published part of Istanbul Journal of Culture's special issue on "Entertainment in Istanbul" this article discusses the story of spatially concentrated 'entertainment periphery' to dismiss Beyoglu/Pera-centrist perspectives to Istanbul's entertainment and leisure consumption.
Entrepreneurship as Social Status: Turkish Immigrants' Experiences of Self-Employment in Finland
published 2008 in 'Migration Letters', 5 (1): 53-62 .
The article discusses the experiences of self-employment among immigrants from Turkey living in Finland. The... more The article discusses the experiences of self-employment among immigrants from Turkey living in Finland. The immigrants are mainly active in the restaurant and fast food sector in Finland, primarily in small kebap and pizza businesses. The article argues that both economic and social aspects explain the experiences of self-employment. Despite economic hardship, the freedom and social status connected to entrepreneurship is highly valued. Self-employment provides a positive self-understanding and a good social status, which the immigrants from Turkey find it difficult to achieve by any other means in Finnish society.
Lighting the Fires of Entrepreneurialism? Constructions of meaning in an English inner city Academy
by Philip Woods
Co-authored with Glenys Woods. Published in International Journal of Technology and Educational Marketing, 1 (1), 2011.
Entrepreneurialism and entrepreneurial leadership are increasingly viewed as essential to improving the capability of... more Entrepreneurialism and entrepreneurial leadership are increasingly viewed as essential to improving the capability of organisations to innovate and improve performance. This article aims to refine the conceptual understanding of entrepreneurialism in the context of public education, drawing on data concerning constructions of meaning around entrepreneurialism in an inner city Academy in England. The authors highlight effects of power in forming the discourse and meanings around entrepreneurialism, the layers of meaning in these constructions, and the presence of both business entrepreneurialism and alternative groundings for entrepreneurialism. The article concludes by refining the typology of entrepreneurialism, placing it in the context of levels of meaning and suggesting three implications for schools and educational policy. The association the authors found of enterprise with relational motivations and with public and community-orientated aims suggests a general appetite exists to forge a more radical entrepreneurialism than that prescribed solely by a private, competitive business view of the world.