Lecture 5: The social construction of entrepreneurship
This lecture will combine the models and theories introduced in
the previous lectures into an alternative model of entrepreneurship.
This lecture will introduce the concept of intersectionality, which
holds that experiences in entrepreneurship (or at the workplace in
general) are affected by the multiple positions that people take in society
(and their power).
A related concept is life story analysis in which the life of an entrepreneur
is divided in stages (chapters). A social network analysis is then performed
for each life chapter to study the building of an entrepreneur’s social capital.
African + women + entrepreneurs = three different social identities