CALL FOR PAPERS
Enterprising Cultures
CMS6: Sixth International Critical Management Conference
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK: July 13-15, 2009
Stream Description: To date the political economy and socio-cultural aspects of enterprise development and entrepreneurship have been under-discussed themes in critical management studies. Our stream aims to highlight entrepreneurship and enterprise development as a rich field requiring theoretical attention from critical management studies. We believe new forms of entrepreneurial effort emerging, which cross both cultural and geographic boundaries, are exciting areas for critical and theoretical attention. We seek in this stream to explore ways in which socio-cultural factors and political context influence entrepreneurial processes, identity and activity: how entrepreneurs and new enterprises 'become', instead of 'are' (Essers and Benschop, 2007). We think entrepreneurship is also about power, resistance, identity and diversity and can involve maintaining or reclaiming of culture and community (Bryant, 1999; Paredo and Chrisman, 2006).
CMS6 presents a timely opportunity for critical management scholars to come together around analyses that draw attention to the dynamics of power and the ways power connects, intersects, transforms or disrupts subjectivities, such as ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, sexuality and geographies of place in relation to entrepreneurship (Fletcher, 2003). By inviting papers around the theme of Enterprising Cultures we aim to provide this space for scholars to share critical perspectives in this growing field of contemporary interest. There's a normative base to presumptions about the 'naturalness' of individualism and competition embedded in discourses about entrepreneurship. Growth and development is viewed in relation to wealth generation rather than in socio political terms. Most analyses are primarily informed by western values and 'Eurocentric' epistemologies (Chakrabarty, 2000). Globalisation is generating new shifts not only in the transnational operations of International businesses but also in the movement of population groups across the world. New enterprise development is a context-dependent process and can embrace social change in ways that go far beyond simple commerce or economic growth (Czarniawska, 2003; Steyaert and Katz, 2004).
We argue there are issues of power, the political economy of place and discursive constructions of culture here that require timely consideration within the critical management studies 'space'. Discourses about the entrepreneur as personality 'type' favour stereotypical constructions of a 'heroic', charismatic, risk-taking, rugged masculinised individualism which underpins what it means to be enterprising (Chell, E. et al 1991; Marlow and Patton, 2000; Ogbor, 2000). Hence, most entrepreneurs featured in mainstream accounts are 'white' males (Bruni et al., 2004; Essers and Benschop, 2007).
We seek papers from more pluralist perspectives that destabilise hegemonic 'white' patriarchal standpoints (Chakrabarty, 2000) and reveal dimensions of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, class, culture and geographic context. We want o explore the rich diversity of motivations, purposes and meanings of entrepreneurship and wide variation in ways people construct both themselves and the enterprising activities they engage in (Skeggs, 2004; Down and Reveley, 2004;). Ethnic minority and Indigenous entrepreneurs often rely on cultural networks of shared language, family relationships and the accumulation and exchange of communal social capital. Social and cultural factors play an essential role in defining not only the nature of the enterprise activity itself, but also in shaping governance and management arrangements (see for example: Anderson and Jack, 2002; Portes et al. 2002; Rehn and Talaas, 2004; Peredo, et al, 2004; Pio, 2005; Frederick and Foley, 2006; Lee-Ross and Mitchell, 2007; Bruton et al; 2008; Cahn, 2008; Banerjee and Tedmanson, 2007). A postcolonial perspective would analyse minority entrepreneurship and community enterprise development as part of the ways 'subaltern' groups can 'speak back' (Spivak, 1988) against the historic legacies of past and continuing (neo) colonial dominations (Frenkel and Shenav, 2003; Storr and Butkevich, 2007; Banerjee and Tedmanson, 2007).
We envisage strong interest in CMS6 Stream: Enterprising Cultures from scholars concerned with questions of class, political economy, post-colonialism, gender, sexuality, development studies and Indigenous enterprise development. We welcome practice based and theory presentations which deconstruct mainstream ideologies in this field and address questions such as:
· How do 'mainstream' entrepreneurial discourses both constrain and enhance enterprising cultures?
· How do the dynamics of power, gender, resistance, sexuality, identity, space, emotions, ethnicity - interplay to shape (or be shaped by) entrepreneurial activity?
· In what ways does culture shape entrepreneurial activity and/or its organizational form?
· Do emergent 'minority' enterprises generate new hybridities of cultural and social entrepreneuring in either developing or 'host' nation contexts?
We call for papers that address and/or explore the following themes:
· Socio-cultural dynamics of entrepreneurship
· Entrepreneurial 'identities': the entrepreneurial 'others'
· The political economy of local enterprise development
· Socio cultural factors in entrepreneurial activities
· Geographies of entrepreneurship
· Issues of: gender, class, ethnicity, locality, Indigeneity, sexuality – in enterprise activity, organisation and management
· Critical reflections on management and power relations in enterprise development and/or entrepreneurship – including insights drawn from:
o feminist theory;
o postcolonial theory;
o 'whiteness' theory;
o cultural perspectives;
o action research; narratives; story telling; discourse analysis or other innovative perspectives
Stream Convenors:
+61 43 999 0889 University of South Australia
+31-24 3611740
+61 8 830 24363
| 1st November 2008 | Submit Abstracts (<1000 words, A4, single spaced, 12 point font) to: deirdre.tedmanson@unisa.edu.au |
| 31st December 2008 | Notification of selection |
| 1st May 2009 | Full papers submitted |
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