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Discursive and media tessitura of entrepreneurial activity in Brazil1 1 Modified and amplified version of work presented in the 5th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy, that took place on July the 15th to 18th 2015 in Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE/IUL), Lisbon, Portugal. The present work was accomplished with support from CNPq, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - Brazil (process no. 303434 / 2019-8); and the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (FAPESP), process no. 2019 / 14365-7.

Abstract

The present paper aims to discuss the discursive relationships among entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship in contemporary Brazil. Observing the Brazilian digital platforms that make the object of research, we have identified the emergence of projects and discourses referring to the utopia of an “entrepreneurial society”, as seen in P. Drucker. In that context, we are able to relate the social roles (DAHRENDORF, 2012) of the business entrepreneur and of the social entrepreneur, both being identified with the notion of common good. From Fairclough’s (2001) critical discourse analysis perspective, we study the intersections and overlapping between such agents, corporations and initiatives that aim at profiting and those of the non-profit sector.

Keywords
Entrepreneurial culture; Communication and consumption; Social entrepreneurship; Análise de discursoDiscourse analysis; Inspiration

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