Moving too fast? Addressing temporality and acceleration in portuguese business ventures scaling

In recent years, Portugal has been increasingly credited as an emergent European entrepreneurial and technological hub, a rising and promising start-up nation. An ethnographic study was developed in one of the most successful start-up ventures operating in Portugal, with the goal of scrutinizing pol...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/spp,
Autor principal: Coelho, João Vasco
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas 2023
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Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:In recent years, Portugal has been increasingly credited as an emergent European entrepreneurial and technological hub, a rising and promising start-up nation. An ethnographic study was developed in one of the most successful start-up ventures operating in Portugal, with the goal of scrutinizing policy effectiveness in an employment creation and relations perspective. Considering the effect temporality regimes and acceleration are increasingly considered to have as new business ventures socioeconomic base, the study focus was placed on speeding-up implications, namely on how actors experience speed as infrastructural base of employment relations.