The Social Construction of Market Entrepreneurship: A Case Analysis in the UK Fishing Industry

Abstract

This paper attempts to take a broadly social constructionist perspective in analyzing a personal case history of market entrepreneurship in the UK. The aim of the paper is to offer a novel contribution to the task of theorizing entrepreneurship at the Interface by seeking to sketch out some of the social and historical forces which might inform the ways that market entrepreneurship is socially constituted. This social constitution of market entrepreneurship is wrought through the discourse and practices of a UK fish marketing entrepreneur acting in the working class fishing culture of Grimsby, a long established port in the UK. However, in this case the analysis is not limited to current entrepreneurial discourse in the UK fishing industry, but is broadened to try to trace the antecedents of entrepreneurship as they may be found in the history of moral individualism in sixteenth century British political philosophy.

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