Document Type
Article
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
5.2 ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, Business and Management., 5.4 SOCIOLOGY, Social issues, 5.6 POLITICAL SCIENCE, public administration, Organisation Theory, 5.9 OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES, Social sciences, Interdisciplinary
Abstract
This paper contributes to creative entrepreneurship studies through exploring ‘liminal entrepreneuring’, i.e., the organization-creation entrepreneurial practices and narratives of individuals living in precarious conditions. Drawing on a processual approach to entrepreneurship and Turner’s liminality concept, we study the transition from un(der)employment to entrepreneurship of 50 nascent necessity entrepreneurs (NNEs) in Spain, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The paper asks how these agents develop creative entrepreneuring practices in their efforts to overcome their condition of ‘necessity’. The analysis shows how, in their everyday liminal entrepreneuring, NNEs disassemble their identities and social positions, experiment with new relationships and alternative visions of themselves, and (re)connect with entrepreneuring ideas and practices in a new way, using imagination and organization-creation practices to reconstruct both self and context in the process. The results question and expand the notion of entrepreneuring in times of socio-economic stress.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617727778
Recommended Citation
Garcia-Lorenzo, L., Donnelly, P., Sell-Trujillo, L. and Imas, J. M. (2017) Liminal Entrepreneuring: The Creative Practices of Nascent Necessity Entrepreneurs. Organisation Studies, 39(2-3), 373-395. DOI: 10.1177/0170840617727778
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Publication Details
Organization Studies,
Volume: 39 issue: 2-3, page(s): 373-395 Article first published online: October 24, 2017; Issue published: March 1, 2018https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617727778