Paper presented at the 8th International
Conference in Critical Management Studies
10 Jul 2013-12 Jul 2013
The
University of Manchester. Manchester, United Kingdom The current crisis
has created a new spirit of resisting the main business models that
affect the way in which people work and generate new businesses. In
particular, the neoliberal narrative of entrepreneurial wealth and
innovation has been superseded (and challenged) by narratives that
emphasise the resilience and resistance of communities across part of
Europe. Like in the case of Argentina’s financial crisis, these
communities appear to alter the way in which we understand
entrepreneurship embracing critical discourses that act and enact forms
of resisting the cannons of how to generate, produce and work. Here, we
found new forms of entrepreneurial activities that reflect practices
forgotten in Europe and which are usually associated to barefoot
entrepreneurs and indigenous entrepreneurs. Thus, these epitomise a new
spirit of entrepreneurship embedded in insurrection and revolt.xxxx
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