Miriam Plavin-Masterman is an assistant professor in Worcester State University’s Business Administration and Economics Department. She received a BSc in Industrial/Labor Relations from Cornell University, an MBA from Dartmouth College’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and an MA, and PhD in Sociology from Brown University. She studies the efforts of entrepreneurs to reclaim abandoned spaces in support of making cities more livable. More specifically, she examines the discourse practices entrepreneurs engage in that help them sustain their projects over the long time periods in which they occur (often 10 years or more). In doing so, her research contributes to a better understanding of how these projects come to ...
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