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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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An Autoethnographic Account of Prosaic Entrepreneurship

Craig Engstrom
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

2012 10 (1-2) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstrakt

In recent years, entrepreneurship scholars have begun studying entrepreneurship from social, prosaic, narrative, and discursive dimensions. These ―new movement‖ approaches privilege both business and non-business perspectives. Research in this domain of inquiry seeks to account for the everyday and mundane practices of social actors that can be characterized as entrepreneurial; therefore, prosaic approaches can de-center the narrative of entrepreneurship as comprised solely of a group of elite entrepreneurs. While researchers are encouraged to describe entrepreneurship from a life-story perspective, few scholars have used a self-narrative approach to writing about entrepreneurship. In this article, I use autoethnography to provide a personal account of entrepreneurship. I reflexively interrogate the ways in which I have reproduced, disrupted, benefited from, and been hindered by the dominant enterprise discourses in the United States. A prosaic approach using self-narrative, as demonstrated, is already engaged in a process of restorying entrepreneurship scholarship because it takes into account, among other things, the details of everyday entrepreneurial activity and is receptive to heterodox accounts (even stories that end in entrepreneurial failure).

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APA style

Engstrom, Craig (2012). An Autoethnographic Account of Prosaic Entrepreneurship. (2012). An Autoethnographic Account of Prosaic Entrepreneurship. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 10(1-2), 41-54. (Original work published 2012)

MLA style

Engstrom, Craig. „An Autoethnographic Account Of Prosaic Entrepreneurship”. 2012. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, t. 10, nr 1-2, 2012, ss. 41-54.

Chicago style

Engstrom, Craig. „An Autoethnographic Account Of Prosaic Entrepreneurship”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 10, nr 1-2 (2012): 41-54.