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Do creative entrepreneurs display “dynamic capabilities”?

16 July 2023 | Uncategorized

Introduction to Dynamic Capabilities In my last post, I looked at Sarasvathy’s theory of effectuation, as an example of entrepreneurial theory which seems to match well with the lived experience …

Effectuation within narratives of creative industries entrepreneurship

25 April 2023 | book, phd thesis

Problems matching entrepreneurial theory to reported experience How does entrepreneurship happen? Viewed from the outside, it can sometimes seem mysterious. But through the work of researchers such as Baron and …

Stories of creative entrepreneurship

24 April 2021 | interviews, PhD Summary, phd thesis

Last week, my daughter said to me, “tell me about when I was a baby”. It’s a variation on a request made in many households – “tell me a story,” …

Temporal ordering and co-creating narrative accounts

11 January 2021 | interviews, journal article

The relationship between narrative and time In his essay Narrative Time, Paul Ricoeur wrote about what he saw as the reciprocal relationship between narrative and temporality. Taking Heidegger’s questioning of …

Five Lanes – a work in progress for mapping narratives

13 July 2020 | comment

1. For some time now, I’ve been thinking about visual mapping techniques and how they can be used in narrative research. I came to this topic by considering the data …

Mapping and storytelling

24 November 2019 | book

As a child, I drew maps. Maps which had our family house at the centre and a web of suburban streets radiating out from it, to the various destinations my …

Entrepreneurs: heroes or villains within the arts?

8 November 2019 | Uncategorized

An aspect of my research I find myself returning to regularly is the question of entrepreneurial identity and how it’s perceived by participants in the creative industries. This preoccupation manifests …

Canvassing “canvassing” as a data collection technique

5 July 2019 | Uncategorized

As I get closer to proposing a data collection method for my research, I’ve been giving further thought to the emerging phenomena of using “canvases” as a way of summarising …

Ethnographic elements within management consultancy

28 April 2019 | Uncategorized

This week, I’ve been dragging old boxes out of storage, rummaging through their contents, keeping or discarding. Among the piles of stuff is a reflective essay from my Masters degree, …

Proposing an Entrepreneurial Journey Canvas

17 April 2019 | Uncategorized

The publication in 2010 of Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur’s Business Model Generation has proven highly influential in both the theory and practice of management consulting. The book’s lasting gift …

Dimensions of entrepreneurship

21 October 2018 | book, Uncategorized

Clarke’s law is, famously, “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Entrepreneurship is hardly advanced technology, but I think to those who don’t practice it, it can seem as …

Some initial thoughts on entrepreneurship, business, wealth and innovation.

20 May 2018 | book, journal article, Uncategorized, web resource

Recently, I’ve been teaching a subject at AFTRS on Entrepreneurial Finance. This has been a useful exercise in exploring ideas about what an entrepreneur is and who identifies as an …

The pitch as storytelling and the storyteller’s shifting position

17 February 2018 | journal article, Uncategorized

Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of running a two-day clinic for artists seeking to improve their skills in attracting financial support from donors and sponsors. It’s the second time I’ve …

Are the arts central to defining the creative industries?

1 October 2017 | journal article, web resource

There’s more to talk about in the article by Julian Meyrick which I discussed last post. As I mentioned then, Meyrick is highly critical of measures used by successive governments …

Is “creative industries” just the new, economically justifiable version of “the arts”?

30 September 2017 | journal article, Uncategorized, web resource

This article, by Julian Meyrick on the Conversation, has sparked so many thoughts that they have to marshaled into an orderly queue and forced to wait patiently. Its primary focus …

What made the creative industries different then, may not be so potent now.

27 August 2017 | book

Management consultants tend to come in two types; generalists and industry specialists. I’m the second type. If I was of the first type, I might tell you (as many have …