... investors) to provide a framework for explaining crowdfunders’ decision making. The paper also offers nuances by taking into account the different audiences’ motivations to fund a project. Decision making Discourse Crowdfunding Emotion Acquiring funds is a crucial activity for entrepreneurs...

...Eva Kašperová; John Kitching Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel conception of embodied entrepreneurial identity. Prior studies conceptualise identity primarily in terms of narrative or discourse. Critiquing the limited focus on linguistic practices, the authors build...

... on entrepreneurship and in the public discourse, in order to understand what kind of failure is being incorporated into the entrepreneurship discourse and what is being repressed. Design/methodology/approach – The research design is twofold: an empirical investigation modelled as a discourse analysis...