The Creative Industries Entrepreneur: An Analysis of Lived Experience

Abstract

Expanding our understanding of the lived experience of individuals who use their creativity to realize entrepreneurial opportunity is the primary aim of this paper. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis is used, based on two interviews of one-hour duration, with eight participants. The key contribution of this research is the recognition of the Creative Industries Entrepreneur. A Creative Industries Entrepreneur is an individual who occupies a space between traditional entrepreneurship theory and established creativity models. The main driving force in opportunity formation for a Creative Industries Entrepreneur is their creative impulse. This pushes them to achieve a personhood, which can reconcile intrinsic impulses with external market forces and social imperatives.

Sustainability in family business settings: a strategic entrepreneurship perspective

“…Although the words used as labels by the participants might be different what they represented was sufficiently similar in content to inform the development of a new model. Indeed, as Patten and Stephens (2023) explain similar experiences can be expressed in different ways by entrepreneurs.…”

“…Prior research (Muñoz and Cohen, 2018;Kelliher et al, 2020;Patten and Stephens, 2023;Radu-Lefebvre et al, 2022) highlights the need to explore the entrepreneurial narrative in order to enhance our understanding of entrepreneurship in different contexts. Narrative structuring (Kvale, 2016) was utilised to create a coherent story of the sustainability of an entrepreneurial family business.…”