entrepreneurial imagination

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 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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