Temporality and meaningful entrepreneurship

S. Fremeaux () and F. Henry
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S. Fremeaux: Audencia Business School

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Abstract: Temporality is an under-researched area in entrepreneurship and business ethics, even though entrepreneurs are particularly afected by a fast-paced work environment. How do they position themselves in relation to the acceleration of time in order to construct meaning for their activity? We draw on ffty-four semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs to outline the diferent ways in which they perceive a faster pace of work. We show how the meaning they give to their activity varies according to whether they accept or resist the acceleration of time: (1) By claiming to accept a high work rate, entrepreneurs may see work as a way of keeping busy, having fun, forgetting, or achieving efciency; (2) by asserting that they resist the acceleration of time, they view work as a way of setting ethical goals, doing their job better, experiencing unexpected encounters, or being creative. These two diferent perspectives on time and meaning are not incompatible: It is possible that achieving a harmonic balance between periods of acceleration and deceleration of time may foster the construction of meaningful entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Acceleration; of; time; ·; Deceleration; of; time; ·; Meaningful; work; ·; Meaningful; entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-08
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Published in Journal of Business Ethics, 2023, 188 (4), ⟨10.1007/s10551-023-05502-0⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-023-05502-0

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