Title
Productive-prosociality, tensions of a solidarity-based entrepreneurial subjectivity: A study with Peruvian social entrepreneurs
Other title
[Prosocialidad-productiva, tensiones de una subjetividad emprendedora solidaria: Un estudio con emprendedores sociales peruanos]
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
Abstract
In recent decades, the study of entrepreneurship has been strengthened and extended from an approach that challenges the need to raise awareness of its social contribution. This study seeks to understand how the coexistence of discourses on the creation of social value and economic value are integrated into entrepreneurial subjectivity. After interviewing 26 Peruvian social entrepreneurs, a new concept, with psychosocial aspects, was proposed. This concept is an apparent paradox that integrates social and economic goals. For that reason, it has been called productive-prosociality, considering theoretical developments on prosociality and sustainability in the field of entrepreneurship studies. The apparent oxymoron quality of the concept is analysed in three discursive repertoires that give it content. A possible subjective repositioning in the figure of some new entrepreneurs in the convulsed present times, is discussed. The results raise the possibility of undertaking a venture from a position of solidarity that transcends the individualistic and competitive aims of the current capitalist model.
Volume
19
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Antropología Psicología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85093521531
Source
Psicoperspectivas
ISSN of the container
07186924
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