It’s a special kind of thrill when you coauthor a journal article with your PhD student, and I’m so glad to have worked on this manuscript with Allison Lucas! Our OPEN-ACCESS article examines the narratives used by entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) in the Detroit entrepreneurial ecosystem, to better understand how they discursively shape the opportunities and challenges for so-called transitional entrepreneurs. It was published in a Special Issue of the interdisciplinary New England Journal of Entrepreneurship on “Transitional entrepreneurship: unleashing entrepreneurial potential across numerous challenging contexts.”
Transitional entrepreneurs are those from oft-marginalized backgrounds who are able to overcome significant social-structural challenges through their small businesses. Our research found that ESO narratives shape Detroit’s transitional entrepreneurs by constructing entrepreneurs’ social identity, orienting them to the ecosystem and envisioning a collective future in which transitional entrepreneurs are key.
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Rahul Mitra 