The University of Southampton
University of Southampton Institutional Repository

'Becoming other' : entrepreneuring as subversive organising

'Becoming other' : entrepreneuring as subversive organising
'Becoming other' : entrepreneuring as subversive organising
This paper discusses entrepreneurship as a process of subversive organising, a journey towards becoming Other. Employing the organising field of stand-up comedy in Finland, we argue that the desire to become an entrepreneur is not only an individual quest, but also a social, subversive desire to resist fixed, institutionally bounded professional identities. Subversive desire, performed through de/professionalisation and de/institutionalisation, constitutes entrepreneuring as a social practice of creation: a nonlinear quest towards difference, discontinuity and intuitive futures yet to come. Subversive practice, in this respect, promotes and sustains, rather than resolves, the inherent tensions of entrepreneuring.
2052-1499
601-620
Daskalaki, Maria
6c5ac39d-95f5-4dc1-98cc-ad2f80b3f0fa
Kauppinen, Antti
3a9db83c-734e-48e0-93a6-cee7ae1f9595
Daskalaki, Maria
6c5ac39d-95f5-4dc1-98cc-ad2f80b3f0fa
Kauppinen, Antti
3a9db83c-734e-48e0-93a6-cee7ae1f9595

Daskalaki, Maria and Kauppinen, Antti (2015) 'Becoming other' : entrepreneuring as subversive organising. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 15 (3), 601-620.

Record type: Article

Abstract

This paper discusses entrepreneurship as a process of subversive organising, a journey towards becoming Other. Employing the organising field of stand-up comedy in Finland, we argue that the desire to become an entrepreneur is not only an individual quest, but also a social, subversive desire to resist fixed, institutionally bounded professional identities. Subversive desire, performed through de/professionalisation and de/institutionalisation, constitutes entrepreneuring as a social practice of creation: a nonlinear quest towards difference, discontinuity and intuitive futures yet to come. Subversive practice, in this respect, promotes and sustains, rather than resolves, the inherent tensions of entrepreneuring.

This record has no associated files available for download.

More information

Published date: 2015

Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 443258
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443258
ISSN: 2052-1499
PURE UUID: 22054a1b-5c26-4e9d-9566-a840c47abe69
ORCID for Maria Daskalaki: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-1955

Catalogue record

Date deposited: 19 Aug 2020 16:32
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 08:58

Export record

Contributors

Author: Maria Daskalaki ORCID iD
Author: Antti Kauppinen

Download statistics

Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.

View more statistics

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact ePrints Soton: eprints@soton.ac.uk

ePrints Soton supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2

This repository has been built using EPrints software, developed at the University of Southampton, but available to everyone to use.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website.

×