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#1714 - “My Disability Is Something We Use as a Strength” — Hero or Not Hero: Revisiting Critical Studies about Entrepreneurship
IRE Vol 22: Issue 2, 2024, Pages
Author(s): Julien Billion (ICN Business School, Puteaux, France & CEREFIGE (center), University of Lorraine, Nancy, France), Catherine Lejealle (ISC Paris, France), Olivier Fournout (Institut Polytechnique de Paris/Télécom Paris, Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Innovation/CNRS, Palaiseau, France), Claire Doussard (Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, UMR AUSser 3329 CNRS, Paris, France)
Abstract:
Critical perspectives challenge the figure of the hero. Meanwhile, the scientific debate lacks a conceptual framework to define the hero characteristics. The objectives of this research are to present and extend the hero-matrix, to use entrepreneurs with disabilities (EWDs) as a means to test the matrix empirically, and to shed light on what defines a hero in our current post-modernist context. To do so, we interviewed 20 EWDs twice over the course of a year. Our results show that a hero is someone who successfully copes with seven injunctions relating both to himself or herself as a person, and to someone who interacts with others. Disability seems to increase the intensity of each criterion.