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View article: Establishing the Liminal-Liminoid Distinction in Organization Studies: How individuals pursue a liminoid transition in a social venture incubator
Establishing the Liminal-Liminoid Distinction in Organization Studies: How individuals pursue a liminoid transition in a social venture incubator Open
While the notion of liminality has improved our understanding of individuals going through transition, its widespread use in a variety of organizational contexts has led to a dilution of the concept’s analytical precision. By analysing ‘li…
View article: Using Technology to Improve the Mental Capacity Assessment and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Process
Using Technology to Improve the Mental Capacity Assessment and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Process Open
The process of mental capacity act (MCA) assessment and depravation of liberty safeguarding (DoLS) was identified as an area for improvement. The project aimed to ensure that patients admitted to hospital for care and treatment were approp…
View article: Regulatory Informality Across Olympic Event Zones
Regulatory Informality Across Olympic Event Zones Open
Olympic event zones are characterized as being intensely formally regulated during live staging periods, producing exclusionary environments blamed for sidelining host community interests. Yet, our findings contradict what scholars perceiv…
View article: He who pays the piper calls the tune? Setting the stage for an informed discourse on third-party funding of academic business research
He who pays the piper calls the tune? Setting the stage for an informed discourse on third-party funding of academic business research Open
Third-party funding of academic research has grown rapidly in its scope and impact. However, several forces demand greater attention to potential opportunities, challenges and threats of third-party research funding. Adopting a historical …
View article: The Other side of ‘us’: Alterity construction and identification work in the context of planned change
The Other side of ‘us’: Alterity construction and identification work in the context of planned change Open
How do we use the Other to make sense of who we are? A common assumption is that people positively affirm social identities by excluding an inferior Other. This article challenges that restricted notion by focusing on the variation and sit…
View article: Collective Emotions in Institutional Creation Work
Collective Emotions in Institutional Creation Work Open
Steffen Farny ([email protected]) is Post-Doctoral Researcher in Entrepreneurship at Aalto University School of Business, Finland. He completed his PhD in Entrepreneurship at Aalto University. His research combines institutional theor…
View article: Elite entrepreneurship education: Translating ideas in North Korea
Elite entrepreneurship education: Translating ideas in North Korea Open
The recent geographies of education literature have drawn attention to the role of elite business education in circulating new ideas. Our paper presents an ethnography based in North Korea to examine the introduction of an international bu…
View article: Financialisation and small firms: A qualitative analysis of bioscience and film and media firms
Financialisation and small firms: A qualitative analysis of bioscience and film and media firms Open
How, if at all, does financialisation affect small firms that have no direct exposure to capital markets? This article argues the need to address this lacuna empirically, conceptually and politically drawing on research from a qualitative …
View article: Performing entrepreneurial masculinity: An ethnographic account
Performing entrepreneurial masculinity: An ethnographic account Open
This article addresses the empirical relationship between masculinity, hegemony and entrepreneurial identity as a largely neglected debate; this omission is addressed by outlining how 10 enterprising men who own and run small businesses pe…