Entrepreneurial Lives - Audio

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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.

Episodes

  1. 12/03/2010

    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.

    16 min

  2. 12/03/2010

    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.

  3. 12/03/2010

    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.

    15 min

  4. 12/03/2010

    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.

  5. 12/03/2010

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

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

    15 min

  6. 12/03/2010

    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.

  7. 12/03/2010

    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?

    15 min

  8. 12/03/2010

    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?

  9. 12/03/2010

    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’.

    15 min

  10. 12/03/2010

    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’.

  • 10 Episodes

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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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