The role of the entrepreneurial encounter in the emergence of opportunities: Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to explore the conceptual potential of the Deleuzian notion of the encounter in order to better understand the genealogy of opportunities. We adopt a processual perspective of opportunities. In order to translate this notion to the domain of entrepreneurship, we analysed and interpreted Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club. This film follows the creation of the first club in the United States that illegally allowed HIV-positive people to supply themselves with foreign antiretroviral drugs from Mexico or Japan. The article highlights encounters in this process that disturb the entrepreneur’s belief systems and allow him or her to be open to potential opportunity. It finally explores how the encounter may improve our understanding of the political becoming of opportunities within the entrepreneurial process.     

农民工城乡迁移个人机会成本的构成及定量分析

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论国企留住人才的有效措施

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网络化对高校“两课”教学的影响及其对策

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Investment opportunities and cash holdings of firms: an empirical study on Korean firms

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The opportunity cost of duality

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论中国企业文化个性化

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中国中小企业成长的影响因素研究——基于中国东北地区中小企业的实证研究

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