Painting the full picture: The conversion of economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1004-1027

  Pret, Tobias ^a   Shaw, Eleanor ^a   Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; creative industries; entrepreneurial capitals; phenomenological inquiry; practice theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001967768     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242615595450     Document Type: Article

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