Small business promotion and intermediating as societal entrepreneurship

Andersson, Lena; Johansson, Anders W.

doi:10.4337/9781781006337.00014

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“…Business support is an issue of contemporary interest for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners alike (Andersson and Johansson, 2012; Down, 2012; Ram et al, 2013). Support is offered both to the general population of businesses and to minority entrepreneurs of different kinds, assumed to be in need of specialised support.…”

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Categorising and labelling entrepreneurs: Business support organisations constructing the Other through prefixes of ethnicity and immigrantship

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et al. 2014

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article demonstrates how Swedish support organisations approach and target immigrant entrepreneurs in terms of categorisation and labelling. In their strategic positioning, and as a result of framing and communicating specific target groups for their activities, organisations simultaneously produce and reproduce categories of clients. We argue that despite its emancipatory intent, the process of categorisation runs the risk of reproducing an inferior Other. Adding prefixes in labelling entrepreneurs may replicate the societal hierarchies that business support initiatives were designed to counteract. This article questions the basis of business support for minority entrepreneurs and is a contribution to wider debates concerned with exposing the constructed nature of entrepreneurship.

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