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

• Published in: Entrepreneurship and regional development Vol. 32; no. 3-4; pp. 247 - 256
• Main Authors: Thompson, Neil A., Verduijn, Karen, Gartner, William B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...