Denise Elaine Fletcher

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My research is interdisciplinary and centres on developing sociological understandings of entrepreneurial forms of work. My work starts from the premise that a high proportion of entrepreneurial endeavours begin in relationships within households, families or couples as economic and social assessments are made about the ways in which household productive capacity, along with individual life orientations, can be translated into commodities that have market value. Combining theories from management and sociology, my work engenders balanced educational understandings of the challenges involved in creating entrepreneurial endeavours. Specifically, I examine how emotions, boundaries, roles and resources are negotiated within entrepreneurial work. I utilise these insights to inform sociological theorising about the absorptive effects of entrepreneurial work – effects which are simultaneously enriching and depletive.  This is valuable for inspiring students to extend their entrepreneurial skills and to equip them with the resources and knowledge to grow businesses that are sustainable beyond start up.  From a practitioner or policy perspective, my work stresses how the fundamental institutions of family and work interrelate at an ‘everyday’ level to produce a complex range of business forms that contribute to local economic development.

QUALIFICATIONS : PhD -Nottingham Trent University, ‘Organisational networking and strategic change in a small family business’ (1992-1997, part-time).

BA (FIRST CLASS HONS.) Modern European Studies (CNAA: The Nottingham Trent University, 1988).

MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES :

Fellow of Royal Society of Arts (2010+)

Vice President for Practice and Board member - Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2007-2011)

Member of Family Firm Institute

Member of British Academy of Management

Member of International Family Enterprise Research Academy

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last modified:28 Nov 2011