'Mental mobility' in the digital age: entrepreneurs and the online home-based business
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Home-based online business ventures are an increasingly pervasive yet under-researched phenomenon. The experiences and mindset of entrepreneurs setting up and running such enterprises require better understanding. Using data from a qualitative study of 23 online home-based business entrepreneurs, we propose the augmented concept of ?mental mobility? to encapsulate how they approach their business activities. Drawing on Howard P. Becker's early theorising of mobility, together with Victor Turner's later notion of liminality, we conceptualise mental mobility as the process through which individuals navigate the liminal spaces between the physical and digital spheres of work and the overlapping home/workplace, enabling them to manipulate and partially reconcile the spatial, temporal and emotional tensions that are present in such work environments. Our research also holds important applications for alternative employment contexts and broader social orderings because of the increasingly pervasive and disruptive influence of technology on experiences of remunerated work.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 266-281 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | New Technology, Work and Employment |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 24 Nov 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 2014 |
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Rights statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Di Domenico, M. , Daniel, E. and Nunan, D. (2014), ‘Mental mobility’ in the digital age. New Technology, Work and Employment, 29: 266-281, which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/ntwe.12034. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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