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dc.contributor.authorWapshott, Roberten_UK
dc.contributor.authorMallett, Oliveren_UK
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-09T00:01:58Z-
dc.date.available2024-10-09T00:01:58Z-
dc.date.issued2024-08-27en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/36296-
dc.description.abstractEnterprise policy, which seeks to stimulate start-ups and support small businesses, attracts significant investment from government and shapes the context for entrepreneurs. Researchers have begun to study the processes underlying the formulation of enterprise policy. However, accounts of how competing interests seek to influence enterprise policymaking processes remain rare. Utilising a distinctive approach to narrative entrepreneurship, developed through a narrative policy analysis, we examine archival records of submissions from a range of stakeholders to a UK government inquiry. We develop a narrative entrepreneurship approach that allows us to analyse the stories and broader narratives told by entrepreneurs and others. Our analysis identifies different types of narrative strategy used to develop stories by two competing interest groups: a narrative from small businesses and their representatives; and, contesting this, a counternarrative from other stakeholders, including the finance industry, consumer groups and large firms. We analyse how the inquiry engaged with these competing narratives and sought to make them amenable to policymaking through the creation of a simplifying, overarching metanarrative. We demonstrate that, while this metanarrative simplified the uncertain, complex and polarised issue of enterprise policy, it masked and did not resolve the underlying tensions between competing interests.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherBMCen_UK
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dc.subjectEnterprise policyen_UK
dc.subjectNarrative entrepreneurshipen_UK
dc.subjectEntrepreneursen_UK
dc.subjectSmall businessen_UK
dc.subjectHistoryen_UK
dc.subjectStoriesen_UK
dc.titleSmall business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committeeen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11187-024-00966-4en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleSmall Business Economicsen_UK
dc.citation.issn1573-0913en_UK
dc.citation.issn0921-898Xen_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.author.emailoliver.mallett@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.date27/08/2024en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Nottinghamen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationManagement, Work and Organisationen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:001298757400001en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-85202206960en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid2036824en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0002-2327-3592en_UK
dc.date.accepted2024-08-13en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-08-13en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2024-08-13en_UK
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_UK
rioxxterms.versionVoRen_UK
local.rioxx.authorWapshott, Robert|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorMallett, Oliver|0000-0002-2327-3592en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2024-10-08en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/|2024-10-08|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenames11187-024-00966-4.pdfen_UK
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local.rioxx.source1573-0913en_UK
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