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Activist Entrepreneurship

Attac’ing Norms and Articulating Disclosive Stories

Malin Gawell

Malin Gawell Activist Entrepreneurship Attac’ing Norms and Articulating Disclosive Stories

Doctoral Thesis in Business Administration at Stockholm University, Sweden 2006 In Activist Entrepreneurship theories of entrepreneurship are challen-

ged to also comprise entrepreneurship of non-profit organizations in civil society. Since entrepreneurship theory is highly embedded in an economic discourse and a business setting there is, however, a need to elaborate on the two different frameworks. In Activist Entrepreneur- ship this is done through a study of the entrepreneurial process of At- tac Sweden. The study has been conducted with a narrative approach.

Entrepreneurship theory is in this study re-contextualized in the framework of non-profit organizations. However, the paradox of pro- fit versus non-profit has to be elaborated on as well as the dilemmas of opportunities, legitimacy and the bounding of the new organization.

The study elaborates on the observed resistance towards organizatio- nal boundaries in relation to other societal settings and close con- nections between the process by which entrepreneurship becomes and other group formations in society.

The new organization created through the entrepreneurial process becomes an actor in civil society challenging established practices and norms. However, the entrepreneurial process also reaches beyond the creation of an organization. In this dissertation an alternative fram- ework for entrepreneurship, based on a social process of organizing, is developed. This framework connects the entrepreneurial process to group dynamics as well as to social movements and the articulation of disclosing stories in society.

Malin Gawell is a researcher at Stockholm University Business School and associated to Entrepreneurship and Small Business Re- search Institute (ESBRI). Malin have earlier experiences from wor- king in the Red Cross in Sweden and internationally as well as policy related work on small business development. She is further involved in different initiatives related to voluntary organisations and civil society.

ISBN 91 7155 264 2

School of Business

STockholm UNivErSiTy

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