Narratives of Enterprise: Crafting Entrepreneurial Self-Identity in a Small Firm

Simon Down's timely ethnographic study takes a philosophically reflective and empirically detailed look at the way in which enterprising people use narrative resources to construct their identity as entrepreneurs. The book draws on a wide range of intellectual sources, from naturalistic philosophy and social-psychology to sociology and organisational theory.

Written in a strong narrative style, the book succeeds in making the often complex and inaccessible theories on self-identity easy to ...