Context matters: entrepreneurial energy in the revival of place.
The objective of this longitudinal ethnography of a rural small town in Northern Sweden, following the presence and identifying the processes associated with an incoming entrepreneur, was to better understand entrepreneurship in a rural context. The significant shaping of entrepreneurship by context...
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ftrobertguniv:oai:rgu-repository.worktribe.com:249045 2023-05-15T17:44:41+02:00 Context matters: entrepreneurial energy in the revival of place. Gaddefors, Johan Anderson, Alistair R. Higgins, David Jones, Paul McGowan, Pauric 2018-12-10 https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-72462018000009A004 https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/file/249045/1/GADDEFORS%202018%20Content%20matters https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/249045 unknown Emerald https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/249045 doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-72462018000009A004 https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/file/249045/1/GADDEFORS%202018%20Content%20matters 9781787563728 10.1108/S2040-72462018000009A004 openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Rural Uneven development Entrepreneurial energy Depleted community Process Context Book Chapter acceptedVersion 2018 ftrobertguniv https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-72462018000009A004 2023-03-26T20:20:04Z The objective of this longitudinal ethnography of a rural small town in Northern Sweden, following the presence and identifying the processes associated with an incoming entrepreneur, was to better understand entrepreneurship in a rural context. The significant shaping of entrepreneurship by context is increasingly recognised, with entrepreneurship in depleted communities being an important part of this research movement. This chapter is positioned at the conjunction of these literatures. The authors have studied this community for 10 years; regularly interviewing the entrepreneur and residents; attending meetings and making observations. The authors found that the entrepreneurial creation of garden provoked a raft of change, such that entrepreneurship reverberated throughout the town. To explain these effects, the authors developed the concept of entrepreneurial energy. Entrepreneurial energy is a vitality produced in and by entrepreneurship. It works, in part, as a role model, holding up examples of what can be done. But much more, the presence of entrepreneurial energy serves to invigorate others. It becomes amplified in new ways of doing, new ways of being, yet calcified in the entrepreneurial actions of others. The authors saw how it unleashed the latent, promoted the possible, to entrepreneurially revive the town. Book Part Northern Sweden OpenAIR@RGU (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen) 63 78 |
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The objective of this longitudinal ethnography of a rural small town in Northern Sweden, following the presence and identifying the processes associated with an incoming entrepreneur, was to better understand entrepreneurship in a rural context. The significant shaping of entrepreneurship by context is increasingly recognised, with entrepreneurship in depleted communities being an important part of this research movement. This chapter is positioned at the conjunction of these literatures. The authors have studied this community for 10 years; regularly interviewing the entrepreneur and residents; attending meetings and making observations. The authors found that the entrepreneurial creation of garden provoked a raft of change, such that entrepreneurship reverberated throughout the town. To explain these effects, the authors developed the concept of entrepreneurial energy. Entrepreneurial energy is a vitality produced in and by entrepreneurship. It works, in part, as a role model, holding up examples of what can be done. But much more, the presence of entrepreneurial energy serves to invigorate others. It becomes amplified in new ways of doing, new ways of being, yet calcified in the entrepreneurial actions of others. The authors saw how it unleashed the latent, promoted the possible, to entrepreneurially revive the town. |
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