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Learning Balance: Understanding How Craftspeople Create a Dualistic Entrepreneurial-Craft Identity

Nyberg, Milena LU and Cleveson, Adrian LU (2025) BUSN49 20251
Department of Business Administration
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding regarding how craftspeople experience managing their craft identity when faced with the issues pertaining economic survival for their company. Specifically we hope to understand how they experience and manage liminality. The study expands the literature on liminality (Beech, 2011; Ibarra & Obodaru, 2016) by extending it to the area of craft. By doing so we showcase how liminal experiences stemming from two sets of opposing meaning systems are experienced and managed by crafts brewers. Moreover, we develop the term entrepreneurial crafter to highlight how craftspeople manage the liminal state of their identity. Unlike the literature on craft (Rennstam & Paulsson, 2024) we also argue... (More)
The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding regarding how craftspeople experience managing their craft identity when faced with the issues pertaining economic survival for their company. Specifically we hope to understand how they experience and manage liminality. The study expands the literature on liminality (Beech, 2011; Ibarra & Obodaru, 2016) by extending it to the area of craft. By doing so we showcase how liminal experiences stemming from two sets of opposing meaning systems are experienced and managed by crafts brewers. Moreover, we develop the term entrepreneurial crafter to highlight how craftspeople manage the liminal state of their identity. Unlike the literature on craft (Rennstam & Paulsson, 2024) we also argue that the lines between craft and entrepreneurial values is not straight but instead rather fluid. (Less)
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author
Nyberg, Milena LU and Cleveson, Adrian LU
supervisor
organization
course
BUSN49 20251
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Identity, Liminality, Craft, Craft-orientation, Entrepreneurship, Craft Entrepreneurship
language
English
id
9193945
date added to LUP
2025-06-23 09:47:13
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2025-06-23 09:47:13
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this study is to improve the understanding regarding how craftspeople experience managing their craft identity when faced with the issues pertaining economic survival for their company. Specifically we hope to understand how they experience and manage liminality. The study expands the literature on liminality (Beech, 2011; Ibarra & Obodaru, 2016) by extending it to the area of craft. By doing so we showcase how liminal experiences stemming from two sets of opposing meaning systems are experienced and managed by crafts brewers. Moreover, we develop the term entrepreneurial crafter to highlight how craftspeople manage the liminal state of their identity. Unlike the literature on craft (Rennstam & Paulsson, 2024) we also argue that the lines between craft and entrepreneurial values is not straight but instead rather fluid.}},
  author       = {{Nyberg, Milena and Cleveson, Adrian}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Learning Balance: Understanding How Craftspeople Create a Dualistic Entrepreneurial-Craft Identity}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}