Vincent Lefebvre

Episode 127 – Juliana Chitac – Bricolentrepreneuring: A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania

Episode 127

Uncertainty, discrimination, and socioeconomic marginalization in host countries lead many refugees to entrepreneurial bricolage. Understanding their bricolage practices is crucial to designing policies and programmes to support refugee entrepreneurship, yet little is known about how refugees enact bricolage practices where institutional support is lacking, resources are constrained and where they contend with war trauma due to displacement….

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Episode 126 – Gesine Tuitjer – Rural entrepreneurship as-practice: a framework for research beyond stereotypical notions of entrepreneurial agency and contextual constraints

Episode 126

Rural entrepreneurship scholarship has long underscored the importance of contextual conditions that enable or constrain entrepreneurial activities. However, contextual relations are, at times, characterized by a stereotypical or superficial understanding of what ‘rurality’ is and means for rural entrepreneurship, prompting calls for an exploration of new theoretical foundations. We develop a novel theoretical framework that…

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Episode 125 – Felipe Symmes – The visceral imagination: exploring the visceral aspect of the entrepreneurial imagination through Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives

Episode 125

Drawing on the entrepreneur-as-poet analogy, I explore the visceral aspect of the entrepreneurial imagination and how this visceral aspect is fuelled. I use a two-pronged method of exploring literary works whose protagonists are poets (such as Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives). The first prong is an aesthetically faithful summary that explores the construct of the…

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Episode 124 – Leonhard Gebhardt – Strategic agencement: how sustainable entrepreneurs address the dual liabilities of newness and otherness

Episode 124

Sustainable entrepreneurs are not only confronted with a ‘liability of newness’ that characterizes any entrepreneur but also with a ‘liability of otherness’ as they pursue both collective goals and personal interests. The resulting obstacles include the need for legitimation and a lack of financial, administrative, and informational support. This study explores how sustainable entrepreneurs strive…

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Episode 123 – Vaneet Kaur – The neurosocial alchemy of entrepreneurial transformation: a deep dive into extended mirror neuron system and neuroplasticity

Episode 123

This study introduces a novel framework that integrates social neuroscience and entrepreneurship to explore how neuronal pathways enable the transformation of individuals into entrepreneurs with robust capabilities. Moving beyond traditional individual-centric views, it investigates inter-individual neural and social synchronization, identifying neurosocial mediators that drive the development of entrepreneurial competencies within enterprises. By leveraging the extended…

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Episode 122 – Honglan Yu – When may age not be a barrier to entrepreneurial entry of senior people? The role of individual geographical mobility experience and village democratic governance in rural areas in emerging economies

Episode 122

This paper contributes to the senior entrepreneurship and rural entrepreneurship literature by developing a contingency view on the likelihood of entrepreneurial entry by senior individuals in rural areas in emerging economies. Drawing on utility maximization theory, we propose that multi-level factors and their joint effects help older individuals overcome barriers to entrepreneurial entry. Using data…

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Episode 121 – Rachel S. Shinnar – Female but not too feminine. Perceptions of female entrepreneurs and their ventures: the role of gender and feminine adornments

Episode 121

Using an experimental approach, we examine how gender and feminine adornments impact stakeholders’ spontaneous perceptions of entrepreneurs. Although previous research shows that female entrepreneurs face negative stereotypes and prejudice, we find that compared to their male counterparts, female entrepreneurs and their ventures are no longer viewed less favourably and are even generating more positive perceptions…

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Episode 120 – Kathleen Burke – Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship

Episode 120

Despite scholarly interest in how emotional and instrumental place attachments motivate entrepreneurship, the influences on embeddedness remain underexplored. Building on the notion that entrepreneurship becomes embedded in a locality, we argue that this process is packed with place-based interpretations of the material and imagined reality. Engaging with the empirical setting of Chile, the world’s largest…

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Episode 119 – Lara Pecis & Binbing Ge – The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship

Episode 119

Family businesses are rich in stories and narratives and offer a fertile ground to explore ‘everyday life of family businesses’ that ‘may be difficult to access through other forms of empirical material’ (Nordqvist and Gartner 2020, 122–123). In this paper, we use Helen (Tse’s 2007) biography Sweet Mandarin to explore the complex dynamics of gender,…

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Episode 118 – Linh Duong – ‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching

Episode 118

Existing research highlights the confident, heroic founder figure as a gendered norm in entrepreneurship. Moreover, confident behaviours and powerful speeches have been presented as key factors in delivering successful pitches. This study applies a dramaturgical approach to explore how pitch-training sessions as a backstage context reinforce the gendered ways of displaying confidence and how different…

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