‘Start-Up Nation’: The Making and Performativity of an Empty Signifier

The article sheds light on the process of fabrication of a polysemous, ambiguous, and mocking French entrepreneurial expression – the ‘start-up nation’ – construed as an empty signifier. The fabrication of such empty signifiers in the discourses of entrepreneurship and management, what creates them...

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Main Authors: Claire Champenois, Delphine Saurier, Élise Béliard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association International de Management Stratégique (AIMS) 2025-02-01
Series:M@n@gement
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Online Access:https://management-aims.com/index.php/mgmt/article/view/8904/18850
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