Professor Gretchen Larsen's Outputs (4)

Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions (2017)
Journal Article
Dean, H., Larsen, G., Ford, J., & Akram, M. (2019). Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions. International Journal of Management Reviews, 21(1), 24-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12173

This critical review of the literature on female entrepreneurship problematizes the metanarrative of economic growth and the mechanisms through which it both operates and is maintained. Central to this is the axiomatic ‘underperformance hypothesis’,... Read More about Female Entrepreneurship and the Metanarrative of Economic Growth: A Critical Review of Underlying Assumptions.

Cultural memory and the heritagisation of a music consumption community (2017)
Journal Article
O’Reilly, D., Doherty, K., Carnegie, E., & Larsen, G. (2017). Cultural memory and the heritagisation of a music consumption community. Arts and the Market, 7(2), 174-190. https://doi.org/10.1108/aam-08-2016-0014

Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore how music consumption communities remember their past. Specifically, the article reports on the role of heritage in constructing the cultural memory of a consumption community and on the implications... Read More about Cultural memory and the heritagisation of a music consumption community.

‘It’s a man’s man’s man’s world’: Music groupies and the othering of women in the world of rock (2017)
Journal Article
Larsen, G. (2017). ‘It’s a man’s man’s man’s world’: Music groupies and the othering of women in the world of rock. Organization, 24(3), 397-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508416689095

Groupies are understood as a particular type of fan that are most commonly associated with rock music. The ‘groupie’ identity is almost exclusively applied to female fans but sometimes also to female music producers and is largely used in a derogator... Read More about ‘It’s a man’s man’s man’s world’: Music groupies and the othering of women in the world of rock.

Consumer Identity Projects (2017)
Book Chapter
Larsen, G., & Patterson, M. (in press). Consumer Identity Projects. In SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture (194 - 213). SAGE Publications