Parkinson, Caroline, Nowak, Victoria, Howorth, Carole orcid.org/0000-0002-5547-687X et al. (1 more author) (2020) Multipartite Attitudes to Enterprise:A Comparative Study of Young People and Place. International small business journal. pp. 293-317. ISSN 0266-2426
Abstract
The article examines young people’s attitudes towards enterprise, comparing prosperous and deprived neighbourhoods and two UK cities. Corpus linguistics analysis identified multi-layered attitudes and variations in how place prosperity and city affect attitudes. High interest in enterprise was associated with weaker place attachment and reduced social embeddedness. Young adults from prosperous neighbourhoods delegitimised other’s enterprises; the ‘deprived’ sub-corpus included more fluid notions of enterprise legitimacy. Liverpool accounts contained stronger discursive threads around self-determination; Bradford accounts included greater problematizing of entrepreneurship versus employment. An original Multipartite Model of Attitudes to Enterprise is presented consisting of four layers: attitudes to enterprise generally; attitudes legitimising particular forms of enterprise; attitudes to enterprise related to place; and attitudes to enterprise related to self. The conclusion explains why policies and research need to be fine-grained and avoid uni-dimensional conceptualisations of attitudes to enterprise or deterministic arguments relating entrepreneurship to specific types of places or backgrounds.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | entrepreneurship,deprived communities,Liverpool,Bradford |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 17 Nov 2020 10:10 |
Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2024 00:41 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242619892829 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0266242619892829 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168108 |
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