­­Sixth International Critical Management Conference

Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK: July 13-15, 2009 ­

Stream Description: To date the political economy and socio-cultural aspects of enterprise development and entrepreneurship have been under-discussed themes in critical management studies. The stream aims to highlight entrepreneurship and enterprise development as a rich field requiring theoretical attention from critical management studies. ­

CMS6 presents a timely opportunity for critical management scholars to come together around analyses that draw attention to the dynamics of power and the ways power connects, intersects, transforms or disrupts subjectivities, such as ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, sexuality and geographies of place in relation to entrepreneurship (Fletcher, 2003).

Practice based and theory presentations are welcome which deconstruct mainstream ideologies in this field and address questions such as:

• How do ‘mainstream’ entrepreneurial discourses both constrain and enhance enterprising cultures?
• How do the dynamics of power, gender, resistance, sexuality, identity, space, emotions, ethnicity - interplay to shape (or be shaped by) entrepreneurial activity?
• In what ways does culture shape entrepreneurial activity and/or its organizational form?
• Do emergent ‘minority’ enterprises generate new hybridities of cultural and social entrepreneuring in either developing or ‘host’ nation contexts? ­

Abstracts have to be submitted until November 1, 2008. 

Find out more on the conference website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/conf/cms2009/background/