Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies

In this article, we contend that entrepreneurship studies would greatly benefit from engagement with contemporary theorizations of practice. The practice tradition conceives of the process of entrepreneuring as the enactment and entanglement of multiple practices. Appreciating entrepreneurial phenom...

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Published inEntrepreneurship and regional development Vol. 32; no. 3-4; pp. 247 - 256
Main Authors Thompson, Neil A., Verduijn, Karen, Gartner, William B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 14.03.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Enactment
entanglement
entrepreneuring
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship-as-practice
Ledarskap, entreprenörskap och organisation
nexus of practices
relational epistemology
site ontology
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Summary:In this article, we contend that entrepreneurship studies would greatly benefit from engagement with contemporary theorizations of practice. The practice tradition conceives of the process of entrepreneuring as the enactment and entanglement of multiple practices. Appreciating entrepreneurial phenomena as the enactment and entanglement of practices orients researchers to an ontological understanding of entrepreneuring as relational, material and processual. Therefore, practice theories direct scholars towards observing and explaining the real-time practices of entrepreneuring practitioners. Articles in this special issue on 'entrepreneurship-as-practice' are discussed and suggestions for future research and scholarship that utilize contemporary theorizations of practice are offered.
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ISSN:0898-5626
1464-5114
1464-5114
DOI:10.1080/08985626.2019.1641978