Entrepreneurial Lives - Audio

We hear much about eureka moments that launched exciting new businesses. But what happens after taking that bold step to become your own boss? Juggling family and work demands, running businesses from home, the role of friends and family members, lifestyle, resource acquisition, and the fascinating, messy realities of entrepreneurs are themes explored in this series by Dr. MariaLaura Di Domenico of The Open University.

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Invisible Boundaries: When Home is the Business

MariaLaura examines the challenges of running a home-based business, the coping strategies used - including time / spatial management - and the need to act-out or ‘perform’ to clients and customers.

Dec 03, 2010•16 min

Transcript -- Invisible Boundaries: When Home is the Business

Transcript -- MariaLaura examines the challenges of running a home-based business, the coping strategies used - including time / spatial management - and the need to act-out or ‘perform’ to clients and customers.

Dec 03, 2010

Mompreneurs: Working mothers who run their own businesses

MariaLaura focuses on women entrepreneurs with children, the reasons for their business choices, and the challenges / rewards of balancing demands of work and family in this way.

Dec 03, 2010•15 min

Transcript -- Mompreneurs: Working mothers who run their own businesses

Transcript -- MariaLaura focuses on women entrepreneurs with children, the reasons for their business choices, and the challenges / rewards of balancing demands of work and family in this way.

Dec 03, 2010

Friends, family and fools: A help or a hindrance?

MariaLaura explores the complexities of running a small business with friends or family members.

Dec 03, 2010•15 min

Transcript -- Friends, family and fools: A help or a hindrance?

Transcript -- MariaLaura explores the complexities of running a small business with friends or family members.

Dec 03, 2010

Making it up as you go along: Business as bricolage

Bricolage refers to ‘making-do’ with limited resources in new and creative ways. How do entrepreneurs approach the realities of running a business?

Dec 03, 2010•15 min

Transcript -- Making it up as you go along: Business as bricolage

Transcript -- Bricolage refers to ‘making-do’ with limited resources in new and creative ways. How do entrepreneurs approach the realities of running a business?

Dec 03, 2010

Lifestyle entrepreneurship: A life affirming business ethic

MariaLaura unpacks the notion of ‘lifestyle’ and explores the priorities and orientations of the so-called ‘lifestyle entrepreneur’.

Dec 03, 2010•15 min

Transcript -- Lifestyle entrepreneurship: A life affirming business ethic

Transcript -- MariaLaura unpacks the notion of ‘lifestyle’ and explores the priorities and orientations of the so-called ‘lifestyle entrepreneur’.

Dec 03, 2010

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