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Entrepreneurial Becomings: Transformation, Crisis, and Aspiration in the Global Rise of Microentrepreneurship

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT In the context of global economic and political crises, microentrepreneurship enjoys popularity both as a solution to poverty and as an empowering lifestyle based on values of independence and flexibility. While education, training, and engagement in entrepreneurship may have significant effects on self‐making, social and economic change from entrepreneurial formation remains ambivalent. In this introductory essay, we set out how becoming an entrepreneur is an unfinished project in the lives of economic subjects, entailing practices actively tested, reconfigured as adaptive responses to individual and collective crises and aspirations, and conceived as related to an anticipated and critically assessed immediate future self.

Source: Economic Anthropology

DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70038

Authors: Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Sally Babidge

Institutions: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, The University of Queensland

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, No poverty

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Fondo de Financiamiento de Centros de Investigación en Áreas Prioritarias