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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"The Entrepreneurial Self"”.
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Using a Feminist Tongue: Exploring the Speech Genre of Sexual Violence Prevention within University Documents
As posited by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, language has a “taste”. Words are imbued with the “taste” of characteristics and values from past voices and understandings. In this thesis, I introduce the concept of a feminist tongue to interrogate this dynamic nature of language. This …
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PERSUASION IN REWARD-BASED CROWDFUNDING: THE ROLE OF VISUAL IMAGE
… business startups, crowdfunding (CF) benefits the entrepreneurs by (1) overcoming geographical constraints (Agrawal et al., 2011); (2) adding publicity (e.g., Belleflamme et al., 2013); (3) enabling them to collect “wisdom of crowds” (Collins & Pierrakis, 2012). To attract support from …
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The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On the Quest to be Middle-Class Wealthy and Morally Worthy
The digital labour debate has produced manifold insights into new forms of work and class relations emerging within digital capitalism. So far, however, most research has either focused on tech entrepreneurs or the highly precarious crowd and gig workers, neglecting the growing ranks of …
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Lost in Translation? Non-STEM Academics in the 'Entrepreneurial' University
This study set out to explore the ways in which non-STEM academics, working within UK universities that had positioned themselves publicly as ‘entrepreneurial’ institutions, interpret and negotiate the related concepts of the entrepreneurial academic and university. The entrepreneurial university …