Although narrative analysis has made significant advances in organization and
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This paper seeks to stimulate debate on the agendas, methodologies and methods used in
the field of small business and entrepreneurship. The paper raises questions regarding the …

It is suggested that more “role model” women entrepreneurs are needed. However, the
gender gap in entrepreneurship remains. This study analyses the narratives of 51 role …

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
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As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly
during the last decade, the quest to find a" one-size-fits-all" general theory of …

The subtitle of this book was formulated in Cáceres, in May 2008. We were at the seventh
international conference for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 7) and saw that a …

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springboard for furthering a holistic understanding of women's entrepreneurship …

We argue that creating novel ventures consists of inductive analogical or metaphorical
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This article presents a conceptual model of entrepreneurial opportunity production from a
constructivist perspective. The model assumes that opportunity production proceeds through …

Drawing on the organizational identity literature, this exploratory study examines the dual
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