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In this chapter, we do a minor close reading of the concept “the other within” (TOW) with the purpose to delineate potential conceptual advancement (MacInnis. J Marketing, 75(4), 136–154; 2018) that TOW as a specific form of entrepreneurial agency for subsistence entrepreneurs bring to entrepreneurship studies in general and subsistence entrepreneurship studies in particular. TOW is here elaborated conceptually upon as an entrepreneurial agency practiced subtly, on-going and insistently in everyday life by entrepreneurs embedded in more constraints (real and/or perceived) relative to the average entrepreneur. Our point of departure is the work of Michel de Certeau (The Practice of Everyday Life, 1988/1984; originally published 1974 as Arts de faire), from which we proceed toward the few other authors who have explicitly used TOW as a concept. After having derived central properties of the proposed conceptual construct (TOW) out of these texts, we sum up the core characteristics for the other within as a specific agency for subsistence entrepreneurs, a form of entrepreneurial agency practiced by necessity due to constraints and limitations imposed upon subsistence entrepreneurs out of their control.
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A film fan on IMDb make the following concise summary of the film: “An Urban Legend About the Socially Excluded Immigrants in London . In London, the Nigerian illegal immigrant and former doctor Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) works as cab driver along the day and in the front desk of a hotel managed by Juan ‘Sneaky’ (Sergi López) in the graveyard shift. He shares a couch in the small flat of the Turkish illegal immigrant Senay (Audrey Tautou), who also works in the hotel as maiden. One night, the Londoner prostitute Juliette (Sophie Okonedo) asks Okwe to fix the toilet of room 510, where she ‘works’, and he finds a human heart obstructing it. Okwe’s further investigation discloses an invisible world of traffic of human organs of illegal immigrants in London. This excellent movie has a great screenplay about the urban legend of traffic of organs of the socially excluded immigrants in London. […] Stephen Frears is one of the greatest directors of the cinema history and his movies are synonym of quality” (Carvalho, 2004).
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Lundberg, H., Ramírez-Pasillas, M. (2020). The Other Within as Entrepreneurial Agency for Subsistence Entrepreneurs. In: Ratten, V. (eds) Entrepreneurship and the Community. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23604-5_2
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