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Registering ideology in the creation of social entrepreneurs: Intermediary organizations, ‘ideal subjects’, and the promise of enjoyment.

Journal
Journal of Business Ethics
ISSN
0167-4544
ISSN-Digital
1573-0697
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2017-06-16
Author(s)
Dey, Pascal  
Lehner, Othmar
DOI
10.1007/s10551-016-3112-z
Abstract
Research on social entrepreneurship has taken an increasing interest in issues pertaining to ideology. In contrast to existing research which tends to couch ‘ideology’ in pejorative terms (i.e. something which needs to be overcome), this paper conceives ideology as a key mechanism for rendering social entrepreneurship an object with which people can identify. Specifically, drawing on qualitative research of arguably one of the most prolific social entrepreneurship intermediaries, the global Impact Hub network, we investigate how social entrepreneurship is narrated as an ‘ideal subject’, which signals toward others what it takes to lead a meaningful (working) life. Taking its theoretical cues from the theory of justification advanced by Luc Boltanski and his co-authors, and from recent affect-based theorizing on ideology, our findings indicate that becoming a social entrepreneur is considered not so much a matter of struggle, hardship and perseverance but rather of ‘having fun’. We caution that the promise of enjoyment which pervades portrayals of the social entrepreneur might cultivate a passive attitude of empty ‘pleasure’ which effectively deprives social entrepreneurship of its more radical possibilities. The paper concludes by discussing the broader implications this hedonistic rendition of social entrepreneurship has and suggests a re-politicization of social entrepreneurship through a confronting with what Slavoj Žižek calls the ‘impossible’.
Funding(s)
Emancipation as Contested Translation: Toward a Dialectic Understanding of Emancipatory Organizing  
Language
English
Keywords
social entrepreneurship
ideology
ideal subject
affect
enjoyment
hedonism
narratives
intermediary organizations
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
No
Publisher
Springer
Publisher place
Dordrecht
Volume
142
Number
4
Start page
753
End page
767
Pages
15
Official URL
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-016-3112-z?wt_mc=internal.event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/102272
Subject(s)

social sciences

business studies

Division(s)

IWE - Institute for B...

Contact Email Address
pascal.dey@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
247978
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