TY - JOUR
T1 - It all starts with a story: questioning dominant entrepreneurial identities through collective narrative practices
AU - Solbreux, Julie
AU - Hermans, Julie
AU - Pondeville, Sophie
AU - Dufays, Frederic
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2024/2/12
Y1 - 2024/2/12
N2 - Taking a multiple-practitioner perspective on entrepreneurial identity construction, we explore how identities can be co-constructed through social interactions. In the context of a social entrepreneurship course at a Belgian business school, we stress the role of collective narratives in breaking free of dominant frames of reference and shaping emancipatory ones. As the stories unfold, collective narratives provide opportunities to perform and negotiate dominant identities as discursive resources: to ‘thin’ certain parts and ‘thicken’ other preferred traits. Through collective narrative practices, practitioners can disrupt the dominant individual heroic entrepreneur myth and develop new entrepreneurial identities reflecting an understanding of entrepreneurship as collective action. Our original intervention method, scaffolding conversations, shows how narratives can be collected and analysed at the individual and group levels, providing members with opportunities to reflect on their shared experiences, struggles and hopes.
AB - Taking a multiple-practitioner perspective on entrepreneurial identity construction, we explore how identities can be co-constructed through social interactions. In the context of a social entrepreneurship course at a Belgian business school, we stress the role of collective narratives in breaking free of dominant frames of reference and shaping emancipatory ones. As the stories unfold, collective narratives provide opportunities to perform and negotiate dominant identities as discursive resources: to ‘thin’ certain parts and ‘thicken’ other preferred traits. Through collective narrative practices, practitioners can disrupt the dominant individual heroic entrepreneur myth and develop new entrepreneurial identities reflecting an understanding of entrepreneurship as collective action. Our original intervention method, scaffolding conversations, shows how narratives can be collected and analysed at the individual and group levels, providing members with opportunities to reflect on their shared experiences, struggles and hopes.
KW - collective action
KW - conversational experiential learning
KW - entrepreneurial identity construction
KW - entrepreneurship as practice
KW - narrative identity
KW - social entrepreneurship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185117555&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/02662426231184164
DO - 10.1177/02662426231184164
M3 - Article
SN - 1741-2870
VL - 42
SP - 90
EP - 123
JO - International Small Business Journal
JF - International Small Business Journal
IS - 1
ER -