TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract In this chapter, the authors explore entrepreneurial change in Stanton, a rural small town in New Zealand. This once-prosperous place has suffered economically and socially as its past core industries have vanished, and it can now be considered as a depleted community. Yet in recent years, the town has seen a rejuvenation, in part due to the endeavours of Sue, a high-profile entrepreneur from outside the town who has set up several businesses in the town and indeed in other small towns in the region. Theoretically, the authors take an entrepreneurial identity perspective in examining how Sue’s arrival has changed the town; the authors examine how her entrepreneurship was perceived as legitimate. The authors use a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews. The authors contribute in demonstrating how an ascribed entrepreneurial identity can not only enable but also hinder change in this community, generating confidence and emotional contagion around entrepreneurship, and also uncertainty and resentment. In doing so, the authors challenge the universality of entrepreneurship benefits.
VL  - 9A
SN  - 978-1-78756-372-8, 978-1-78756-371-1/2040-7246
DO  - 10.1108/S2040-72462018000009A007
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-72462018000009A007
AU  - Warren Lorraine
AU  - Anderson Alistair
AU  - Bensemann Jo
ED  - David Higgins
ED  - Paul Jones
ED  - Pauric McGowan
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Resistance and Change in a Depleted Community: Personal, Pragmatic and Paradoxical
T2  - Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking Through Multi-Voices, Reflections on Emerging Debates
T3  - Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 113
EP  - 127
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -