Because of the diverse nature of entrepreneurship, important questions are raised about how entrepreneurship can usefully be studied, taught and practiced.
In this three-hour seminar, we explore entrepreneurial identity from a range of practical and theoretical perspectives.
The workshop will address a number of questions including:
- What is an entrepreneurial identity, and how may an entrepreneurial identity be constructed, developed, and sustained?
- Who can become entrepreneurs, and are some identities still better afforded, than others, or precluded?
- Are some entrepreneurial identities better suited to venture creation than other identities?
- How far can an entrepreneur reconstruct their identity, for example when crossing cultural boundaries?
- How can we teach entrepreneurship?
A key theme running throughout the webinar will be that of diversity: how we recognise and facilitate diverse entrepreneurial identities and how we might increase recognition and access of such diverse identities.
In addressing these questions, the seminar will showcase researchers, educators, and practicing entrepreneurs, both novice and experienced, in interactive presentations and panel discussions.
We invite participants from all disciplines and interests in and beyond business and management to converse and collaborate on the nature of entrepreneurial identity. In doing so, participants will reflect on their own identities and consider how and when their identities may change in relation, for example, to the external environment, and to different stakeholders in their community.
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Provider Information
This is a joint venture between the BAM Identity SIG and the BAM Entrepreneurship SIG.
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Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to Sections A1, A2, A3, D1, D2, D3 as detailed in the BAM Framework ___________________________________________________________________________
Speakers
Katrina Pritchard
Katrina is a Professor in the School of Management, Swansea University where she is Director of the Centre of People and Organisations. Her research interests include identity (in a variety of employment & volunteering contexts) and diversity (focusing on age, genders and sexualities).
She is a co-founder of the Breaking Binaries Research programme, which includes research funded by ISBE and the CIPD investigating the experience of gender minority entrepreneurs and those working in SMEs.
Dr Kellie Forbe-Simpson
Kellie is an experienced and award-winning entrepreneurship educator with over ten years of experience in supporting students and graduates in developing and running successful businesses.
Kellie has worked on extra-curricular and curricular entrepreneurship education at various HEIs in the UK. Kellie joined Northumbria in 2015 and has had a pivotal role in their innovative entrepreneurship programmes.
Kellie is now the Programme Leader for the BA Business and Entrepreneurship programme. This innovative one-of-a-kind programme where, alongside traditional approaches to business and entrepreneurship, teaches students to develop and run businesses from day one and supports them in a coaching environment.
Kellie's research interests have developed through her expertise in entrepreneurship education. Her research focuses on the more complex, socially constructed aspects of entrepreneurial learning, taking an identity-lens approach.
Geoffrey Bwireh
With over ten years of lecturing experience at university level, community training, business ownership, and management experience, Geoffrey Bwireh currently lecturing at the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences at Mbarara University of Science and Technology as well as a visiting lecturer at Chandaria School of Business-United States International University-Africa, where i facilitate courses in Entrepreneurship and Supply Chain Management
Henning Grosse
Henning trained as a carpenter, studied civil and industrial engineering, and wrote an autoethnography about the German construction industry for his PhD.
Since 1999, he has run his own construction business and has held a Professorship in civil engineering at the IU International University at the Hamburg Campus since 2023. He teaches and supervises students in project management and qualitative research.
Henning has written autoethnographically about his experiences in the German construction industry and used Levinas’ philosophy to explore and understand his experiences.
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Chaired by
Dr Ali Rostron
Dr Ali Rostron's research is informed by her previous work experience as a manager, including exploring implications of an identity perspective for areas of organisational and management practice such as manager education and development. She is increasingly interested in autoethnography as a way of connecting management experience with management theory and so-called best practices. Ali is less interested in what managers “should” do, and more in what managers actually do, and why. She especially enjoy teaching and working with professional managers and sharing their journeys of discovering how academic theories and practices can work for them.
Ali is a member of the British Academy of Management and is on the organising committee of the BAM Identity Special Interest Group (SIG) and is also a \Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Benefits of attending
- Develop and expand understanding of how entrepreneurship may be researched, practised, and taught.
- Develop understanding of the nature of an entrepreneurial identity.
- Critically examine diverse identities within entrepreneurship, and affordances and constraints on an entrepreneurial identity.
- Engage in productive conversation with speakers and other participants from a breadth of disciplines who are interested in how identity may relate with entrepreneurship and other phenomenon, such as gender, diversity and inclusion, work and employment.
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Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
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Event Fee
- This event is free for BAM Members
- Non-Members: £25
If you are booking multiple paid events as a Non-Member, it may be cheaper for you to purchase a BAM Membership as nearly all BAM Events are free or at a discounted rate for Members.
For more information about Becoming a BAM Member, please visit BAM Membership
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Registration closes on 8th May 2024 at 23:59 BST
Payment and Cancellation Policy
Payment for the event must be received before the start date of the event concerned. Access will not be permitted to the event if full payment has not been received.
Cancellations
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