文档介绍：Narrative and Discursive Approaches in
Entrepreneurship
Narrative and
Discursive Approaches
in Entrepreneurship
A Second Movements in Entrepreneurship
Book
Edited by
Daniel Hjorth
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute
(ESBRI), and Malmö University, Sweden
and
Chris Steyaert
University of St Gallen, Switzerland and ESBRI, Sweden
In association with ESBRI
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© Daniel Hjorth, Chris Steyaert 2004
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is available from the British Library
ISBN 1 84376 589 6 (cased)
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Contents
List of contributors vii
Foreword and acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert
1 The prosaics of entrepreneurship 8
Chris Steyaert
2A moment in time 22
Sami Boutaiba
3 Driven entrepreneurs: a case study of taxi owners in Caracas 57
Monica Lindh de Montoya
4 ‘Going against the grain . . .’ Construction of entrepreneurial
identity through narratives 80
Lene Foss
5 Storytelling to be real: narrative, legitimacy building and
venturing 105
Ellen O’Connor
6 The devil is in the e-tale:forms and structures in the
entrepreneurial narratives 125
Robert Smith and Alistair R. Anderson
7 Crime and assumptions in entrepreneurship 144
Alf Rehn and Saara Taalas
8 The dramas of consulting and counselling the entrepreneur 160
Torben Damgaard, Jesper Piihl and Kim Klyver
9 Masculine entrepreneurship