Williams, C.C. (2013) De-linking entrepreneurship from profit-motivated capitalism: some lessons from an English locality. International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2 (3). 225 - 238 . ISSN 2043-8257
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the entrepreneurship literature that has sought to deconstruct the normative view of the entrepreneur as a heroic icon of profit-motivated capitalism by developing a typology of the multifarious lived practices of entrepreneurship ranging from wholly social to wholly profit-motivated forms of entrepreneurship cross-cut by wholly informal to wholly formal forms of entrepreneurial endeavour. This is then applied by reporting evidence from a small-scale survey of the multiple forms of entrepreneurship in the English locality of Bassetlaw. The finding is that just 12% of the entrepreneurs surveyed in this locality are engaged purely in profit-driven entrepreneurship in the legitimate economy. The outcome is a call to more widely apply this typology that depicts the multiple forms of entrepreneurship in order to open up entrepreneurship to re-signification as demonstrative of the possibility of futures beyond legitimate profit-driven capitalism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | entrepreneurship; enterprise culture; social entrepreneurship; informal economy; shadow economy; underground sector; capitalism; England |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2015 11:13 |
Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2018 12:57 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJSEI.2013.056996 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Inderscience |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1504/IJSEI.2013.056996 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87299 |