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Class, Entrepreneurship and the Service Sector: Towards a Conceptual Clarification
Rob Goffee,Richard Scase +1 more
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In this paper, the authors developed a conceptual framework which differentiates entrepreneurs according to the relative mix of capital and labour utilised. And they identified four sub-categories within the entrepreneurial middle class and explored the implications for social mobility on the basis of capital accumulation.Abstract:
Opportunities for entrepreneurship within modern economies are concentrated primarily within the service sector. On the basis of recent empirical research this paper develops a conceptual framework which differentiates entrepreneurs according to the relative mix of capital and labour utilised. Four sub-categories within the entrepreneurial middle class are identified and the implications for social mobility on the basis of capital accumulation are explored. In particular, attention is drawn to the significance of employment relationships as a factor which limits the growth of labour-intensive businesses. Despite its neglect within sociological theory the entrepreneurial middle class continues as a significant force within contemporary economies, and several areas for future research are suggested.read more
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Intuition and entrepreneurial behaviour
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors hypothesize that those owner managers who are, in practice, successful at identifying and exploiting opportunities for growth and capital accumulation (i.e., successful entrepreneurs) are more intuitive in their cognitive style than the general population of managers.
Women's business ownership: a review of the academic, popular and internet literature
TL;DR: A detailed analysis of the research and popular literature on women entrepreneurs can be found in this article, which includes an appraisal of the academic research, the popular literature and Internet based information sources.
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From lifestyle consumption to lifestyle production: changing patterns of tourism entrepreneurship.
Gareth Shaw,Allan M. Williams +1 more
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Towards a Typology of Female Entrepreneurs
Stanley Cromie,John Hayes +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the validity of Goffee and Scase's assertions and found that there are indeed different types of female entrepreneurs, and that while there are some similarities between the typology developed in this paper and that presented by Goffee-Scase, there are also significant differences between them.
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Tourism employment during economic transition
Edith Szivas,Michael Riley +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined labor mobility into tourism employment during economic transition and found that workers came from an unusually wide range of industries, which supports the idea of upheaval in the labor market and evidence for the "refuge" role of tourism was found.
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Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain
TL;DR: The second edition of Goldthorpe's study of social mobility in relation to class structure has been published by as discussed by the authors, which includes an analysis of recent trends in intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and views of the UK from a cross-national perspective.
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Classes in Contemporary Capitalism
TL;DR: Poulantzas as mentioned in this paper provides a pioneering survey of some of the most fundamental, yet least studied, aspects of the class structure of advanced capitalist societies today, and develops a long and powerful analysis of the much-abused concept of the pettybourgeoisie.
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The Rise of the Corporate Economy.
Fred Carstensen,Leslie Hannah +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the industrial inheritance and the growth of firms to 1914, and the rise of the corporate economy from the 1930's to the 1950's: continuity or change?