Generational Encounters and the Social Formation of Entrepreneurial Identity

‘Young Guns’ and ‘Old Farts’

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20500781
AutoresSimon Down (0000-0002-3692-4200, University of Newcastle, UK), James Reveley (0000-0002-3004-7630, University of Wollongong)
Año2004
Volumen11
Número2
Páginas233-250
Fecha de publicación2004-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOrganization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1350508404030381
OpenAlexW2172064070
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas36

Generational relations and entrepreneurialism in organizations are attracting increasing attention from organizational scholars. This article bridges these areas of interest, by examining how entrepreneurial identity is shaped by generational encounters within a small organization context. In so doing, it contributes to ongoing challenges to the scientistic orthodoxy regarding the formation of entrepreneurial persons. Evidence from an ethnographic study of two joint ownermanagers in the port fendering industry is presented. Wenger’s ‘community of practice’ framework is used to show that generational encounters, through their influence on self-identity, are an important social context of the decision to embark on an entrepreneurial career. By emphasizing micro-socially situated aspects of identity formation, this article provides an interactionist complement to recent accounts of entrepreneurs and identities as being (re)produced by discourses that have hegemonic effects

Aesthetics · Ethnography · Hegemony · Identity formation · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Self-concept · Situated · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Studies · Management and Organizational Studies