Who Says More Is Better? Rethinking Success in Lifestyle Entrepreneurship
Wednesday 28 October 2026, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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MAN - Mngt School MR WPB007 - View MapOpen to
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This seminar challenges growth-centric assumptions in entrepreneurship by examining how lifestyle entrepreneurs define and pursue success beyond conventional measures of expansion and financial performance. It explores alternative aspirations, trade-offs, and implications for theory and policy.
Entrepreneurship research has traditionally associated success with growth, expansion and financial performance. Yet these measures do not necessarily reflect what all entrepreneurs seek from their ventures. This seminar draws on our ongoing research on lifestyle entrepreneurship to explore how entrepreneurs understand and pursue success beyond conventional growth-oriented measures. We consider alternative aspirations, the trade-offs entrepreneurs make, and what these perspectives mean for how entrepreneurial success is conceptualised in research and practice.
Speakers
Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
Muntasir specialises in entrepreneurial and small-business finance. He holds a PhD in entrepreneurial exit and previously worked as a credit analyst in a commercial bank, assessing SME loan applications and financing needs. He teaches finance, entrepreneurship and strategic management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His teaching connects financial concepts with the decisions entrepreneurs face when starting, running, growing and exiting a business. His research interests include entre
Lancaster University Management School
Dr Sharmin Nahar is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Lancaster University Management School. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology management, sustainability, digital inequality and inclusion, gender, and the institutional and social contexts in which entrepreneurship develops. Her research has been published in journals including Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Gender, Work & Organizati
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| Name | Sarah Jack |