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The crafting of an (un)enterprising community: context and the social practice of talk
Parkinson, Caroline Howorth, Carole Southern, A.
Parkinson, Caroline
Howorth, Carole
Southern, A.
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2016
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The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in International Small Business Journal by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © 2016 SAGE Publications Ltd.
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Abstract
This article examines a ‘deprived’ UK community to identify how (dis)connections between
context and enterprise are produced within accounts of a particular locality. We used a
discursive psychological approach to examine how the community depicted itself as a context for
enterprise. Our analysis identified three discursive repertoires mobilised by a range of voices in
the community which combined to portray an unenterprising community and create a conceptual
deadlock for enterprise. We suggest it is too deterministic to assume context is fixed and controls
the potential for entrepreneurial development. Instead, we should consider social practices,
including talk, that help construct the contexts in which entrepreneurship is expected to occur.
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Parkinson C, Howorth C and Southern A (2017) The crafting of an (un)enterprising community: context and the social practice of talk. International Small Business Journal. 35(4): 385-404.
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