'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.
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Daskalaki, Maria
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Kauppinen, Antti
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2015
Daskalaki, Maria
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Kauppinen, Antti
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Daskalaki, Maria and Kauppinen, Antti
(2015)
'Becoming other' : entrepreneuring as subversive organising.
Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 15 (3), .
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.
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Published date: 2015
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ISSN: 2052-1499
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