Entrepreneurship Across Generations: Narrative, Gender and Learning in Family Business - Couverture rigide

Hamilton, Eleanor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1849806241 ISBN 13 : 9781849806244

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Entrepreneurship across Generations examines dimensions of identity, gender and learning to understand the complex fabric of family business. An interpretation of narratives from two generations in five families constitutes entrepreneurship as an inherently social, rather than individual, phenomenon.

This enriching book explains how entrepreneurial capacity is shared between generations, showing how learning is embedded within everyday social practice in the family and the business. It explores patriarchal practice and gendered entrepreneurial identities in family business. The author challenges dominant discourses of entrepreneurship. She argues that entrepreneurial identities are mediated by narrative and subject to constant negotiation within and across generations.

With a new perspective on entrepreneurship, this insightful study will be essential and supplementary reading for students and practitioners within the field of entrepreneurship and family business.

Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Foundations for Understanding Families in Business
3. Researching Family Business: Towards Narrative
4. Temporality and Narrative Identity
5. Gender Identities Constructed in Narratives of Family Business
6. Entrepreneurial Learning Across the Generations
7. Solace and Suffering: The Entanglement of the Family and the Business
References
Index

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Eleanor Hamilton, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Lancaster University Management School, UK

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849806241
• ISBN 13: 9781849806244
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible