Understanding relational qualities of entrepreneurial learning: Towards a multi-layered approach |
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Authors: | Mine Karata?-Özkan |
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Institution: | 1. School of Management, University of Southampton, Building 2, Highfield , Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK mko@soton.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to present a multi-layered relational framework of entrepreneurial learning by embedding the conceptual tools of a continental thinker, Pierre Bourdieu, in a social constructionist paradigmatic approach. Through a longitudinal study based on participant observation and in-depth qualitative interviews, entrepreneurial learning processes of five nascent entrepreneurs who have formed a venture team have been examined as a case study. Relational qualities of entrepreneurial learning can be illuminated by exploring dispositions and different forms of capital that nascent entrepreneurs hold at the micro-individual level, which are inextricably linked to the meso-relational level of developing an entrepreneurial habitus as they navigate through the process of business venturing. Such a multi-layered conceptualisation of entrepreneurial learning transcends individual-, team-, firm- and network-level analyses of the subject by generating insights from both micro- and meso-layers. |
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Keywords: | entrepreneurial learning nascent entrepreneur venture team Bourdieu social constructionism relational approach |
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