Existing research highlights the confident, heroic founder figure as a gendered norm in entrepreneurship. Moreover, confident behaviours and powerful speeches have been presented as key factors in delivering successful pitches. This study applies a dramaturgical approach to explore how pitch-training sessions as a backstage context reinforce the gendered way ... Show More
Mar 2025
Episode 119 – Lara Pecis & Binbing Ge – The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship
Family businesses are rich in stories and narratives and offer a fertile ground to explore ‘everyday life of family businesses’ that ‘may be difficult to access through other forms of empirical material’ (Nordqvist and Gartner 2020, 122–123). In this paper, we use Helen (Tse’s 20 ... Show More
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Mar 2025
Episode 120 – Kathleen Burke – Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship
Despite scholarly interest in how emotional and instrumental place attachments motivate entrepreneurship, the influences on embeddedness remain underexplored. Building on the notion that entrepreneurship becomes embedded in a locality, we argue that this process is packed with pl ... Show More
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Mar 2025
Episode 121 – Rachel S. Shinnar – Female but not too feminine. Perceptions of female entrepreneurs and their ventures: the role of gender and feminine adornments
Using an experimental approach, we examine how gender and feminine adornments impact stakeholders’ spontaneous perceptions of entrepreneurs. Although previous research shows that female entrepreneurs face negative stereotypes and prejudice, we find that compared to their male cou ... Show More
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Jun 2025
ICYMI: Pride Under Pressure
Jennie Glazer, CEO at Coqual, a global think tank helping companies redesign how they work and lead. A strategist, facilitator, and builder of high-performing teams, Jennie leads Coqual’s research, advisory, and insight platforms—guiding senior leaders through complexity and towa ... Show More
7m 59s
Oct 2024
Weekly podcast – Is business sustainability at a tipping point?
<p style="font-weight: 400;">This week: The first in a new state-of-sustainability series, Brendan May, business expert and founder of Robertsbridge, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the apparent current crossroads for sustainable business and why some companies are ... Show More
41m 5s
Jul 2024
EP 145: Exploring job market dynamics: non-competes, solo businesses, and work mindsets with Joel Lalgee
<p>Join host <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmymackey/'>James Macke</a>y and his guest <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/joellalgee/'>Joel Lalgee</a>, host of The Realest Recruiter, as they dissect the FTC proposal to ban non-competes, weighing its impact on businesses ... Show More
53m 2s
Dec 2024
Navigating the ESG and Sustainability Landscape Part 2
<p>As the global push for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices and sustainability gains momentum, CFOs face the challenge of translating complex mandates into actionable strategies that simultaneously satisfy regulators, investors, and the company's bottom line.< ... Show More
27m 52s
Oct 22
How Business Leaders Can Help Solve the World’s Toughest Problems
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor at Harvard Business School, believes the world demands a new kind of business leader. She says so-called “advanced leaders” work inside and outside their companies to tackle big issues such as climate change, public health, and social inequality. S ... Show More
23m 56s
Nov 2024
Navigating the ESG and Sustainability Landscape Part 1
<p>As the global push for ESG and sustainability gains momentum, CFOs find themselves translating complex mandates into actionable strategies that satisfy regulators, investors, and the bottom line alike.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marklumsdontaylor/" t ... Show More
28m 3s
Sep 2
Talking Heads – Sustainability, bending, but not breaking
The global landscape is witnessing a significant shift in sustainability strategies, influenced by political pressures and economic realities. Recent months have been a challenging period with sustainability action under considerable pressure.For more insights, visit Viewpoint: h ... Show More
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