CALL FOR PAPERS
Enterprising Cultures
CMS6: Sixth International Critical Management Conference: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/conf/cms2009/background/
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK: July 13-15, 2009
We envisage strong interest in this CMS6 Conference Stream: Enterprising Cultures from scholars concerned with questions of class, political economy, post-colonialism, gender, sexuality, development studies and Indigenous enterprise development. We welcome practice based and theory presentations which deconstruct mainstream ideologies in this field and address questions such as:
· How do 'mainstream' entrepreneurial discourses both constrain and enhance enterprising cultures?
· How do the dynamics of power, gender, resistance, sexuality, identity, space, emotions, ethnicity - interplay to shape (or be shaped by) entrepreneurial activity?
· In what ways does culture shape entrepreneurial activity and/or its organizational form?
· Do emergent 'minority' enterprises generate new hybridities of cultural and social entrepreneuring in either developing or 'host' nation contexts?
We call for papers that address and/or explore the following themes:
· Socio-cultural dynamics of entrepreneurship
· Entrepreneurial 'identities': the entrepreneurial 'others'
· The political economy of local enterprise development
· Socio cultural factors in entrepreneurial activities
· Geographies of entrepreneurship
· Issues of: gender, class, ethnicity, locality, Indigeneity, sexuality – in enterprise activity, organisation and management
· Critical reflections on management and power relations in enterprise development and/or entrepreneurship – including insights drawn from:
o feminist theory;
o postcolonial theory;
o 'whiteness' theory;
o cultural perspectives;
o action research; narratives; story telling; discourse analysis or other innovative perspectives