Selen Kars' Outputs (9)

What happens when you give an entrepreneur a camera? Illuminating spatial, embodied and affective aspects of entrepreneurship (2025)
Journal Article

The use of video to unlock the minutiae of everyday entrepreneurship is growing in response to calls for more creative research methods in studying entrepreneurship. In this paper, we explore the value and relevance of participant-generated video dia... Read More about What happens when you give an entrepreneur a camera? Illuminating spatial, embodied and affective aspects of entrepreneurship.

The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye (2025)
Book Chapter

Vulnerability and exclusion have been explored from a career lens, with concepts such as the glass ceiling (Cotter et al., 2001), glass chains (Arifeen and Gatrell, 2020), glass cliffs (Ryan and Haslam, 2007), sticky floors (Booth et al., 2003), and... Read More about The gendered nature of vulnerability in higher education: The case of Türkiye.

Mind the gap: Investigating the transfer of digital capabilities from the classroom to the business in SMEs (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Objectives: Digital transformation is critical for business productivity, innovation, and growth (BEIS, 2019; OECD, 2021). However, SMEs often lag behind larger firms in digital adoption (OECD, 2021). Learning factories, designed to improve digital c... Read More about Mind the gap: Investigating the transfer of digital capabilities from the classroom to the business in SMEs.

Digital transformation in SMEs: Why relationships matter as much as technology (2024)
Report

Digital transformation is increasingly recognised as the basis for driving business productivity, innovation, and growth. In the UK, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)—the backbone of the economy—often face significant challenges in adopting d... Read More about Digital transformation in SMEs: Why relationships matter as much as technology.

Blank stares and fidgety fingers: Emplacement and embodiment in online teaching (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines how management educators experienced a radical change in the milieu they were performing, and its impact on their ecological knowing. Drawing on empirical data derived from qualitative research with 13 management educators, we dis... Read More about Blank stares and fidgety fingers: Emplacement and embodiment in online teaching.

From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England (2024)
Book Chapter

Accounts of wellbeing are traditionally understood as ‘rooted in social, caring relationships and traditional virtues of compassion, altruism and duty’ (Cieslik, Not smiling but frowning’: Sociology and the ‘problem of happiness’. Sociology, 49(3), 4... Read More about From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England.

Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts (2024)
Book

Leaderly acts and practices from unexpected places are often overlooked and yet have remarkable power. These spontaneous acts are in sharp contrast to those of formal leaders in governments and leading corporations. Global events like the Covid-19 pa... Read More about Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts.

RBWM World Cafe Final Evaluation Report (2023)
Report

The enterprising academic: Embodying enterprise value among UWE staff across disciplines (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

There are many new demands on academics. One of these is to embed enterprise and entrepreneurship education within a range of different academic disciplines. Intergovernmental, governmental and professional organisations, as well as management expert... Read More about The enterprising academic: Embodying enterprise value among UWE staff across disciplines.