Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the repertoire of narrative resources relevant in the creation and maintenance of entrepreneurial identity, and to explore the implications for understanding entrepreneurial behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical research is...

Simon Down’s timely ethnographic study takes a philosophically reflective and empirically detailed look at the way in which enterprising people use narrative resources to construct their identity as entrepreneurs. The book draws on a wide range of intellectual sources, from naturalistic...

This article presents an ethnographic study of control and resistance in a small professional service firm in the port transport industry. Attention is drawn to the importance of informal interaction between the owner-managers and their employees at a site beyond the organisational boundary,...

Last year the then Reviews Editor of Management Learning, Elena Antonacopoulou described three new aspects to the reviews section of the journal. These categories were knowledge-sharing, reflective and revisiting reviews. My purpose in this review is chiefly aimed at knowledge-sharing, in that...

The papers presented in this special issue follow on from ideas and discussions had at a workshop organized by the Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (KITE), at Newcastle University, and the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde University, held at Newcastle...

Public narratives concerning indigenous economic development are increasingly being colonized by enterprise discourse. As du Gay (1996, 2000) amply demonstrates, in another connection, discursive colonization is a multi-faceted phenomenon that intertwines with political and economic institutions...

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...

The purpose of this paper is to review the relevant literature concerning the skills and knowledge of owner-managers in small firms and to show how these might be enhanced and made more effective through alternative transferral and ‘teaching' strategies. It is shown that small firms are not...

Training Enterprise Councils (TECs) were established in the early 1990s in a rush of government and public/private agency enthusiasm and, although the main thrust of the TEC initiative is concentrated on providing Vocational Education Training (VET), they also have a remit to administer and...

Investors in People (IIP), a national Standard for the quality of training and development, was introduced in 1990 with the aim of creating a benchmark, or kitemark (Bennett, Wicks and McCoshan, 1994) enabling organisations to improve the quality and effectiveness of their training and...