This Research Handbook advances entrepreneurship theory in new ways by integrating and contributing to contemporary theories of practice. Leading theorists and entrepreneurship experts, who are part of the growing Entrepreneurship as Practice (EaP) research community, expertly propose methodologies, theories and empirical insights into the constitution and consequences of entrepreneuring practices.
This comprehensive Research Handbook pushes boundaries in the scholarship concerning what entrepreneurship is and what it can become. It is split into four Parts covering new foundations, new theoretical advances, new methodological advances and new empirical advances. Together, with an insightful Foreword by William B. Gartner, chapters examine the nature and consequences of entrepreneurship, its practices and relations, as well as novel research methods for conducting empirical EaP research. Collectively, this Research Handbook marks a bright future for EaP research.
This insightful Research Handbook will provide an excellent up-to-date introduction to EaP research for entrepreneurship, management and organization scholars as well as scholars new to theories of this practice. Practitioners and researchers will also benefit from the wider perspective that this book provides in a novel, exciting and powerful way to fully understand entrepreneurship.
This Research Handbook advances entrepreneurship theory in new ways by integrating and contributing to contemporary theories of practice. Leading theorists and entrepreneurship experts, who are part of the growing Entrepreneurship as Practice (EaP) research community, expertly propose methodologies, theories and empirical insights into the constitution and consequences of entrepreneuring practices.
This comprehensive Research Handbook pushes boundaries in the scholarship concerning what entrepreneurship is and what it can become. It is split into four Parts covering new foundations, new theoretical advances, new methodological advances and new empirical advances. Together, with an insightful Foreword by William B. Gartner, chapters examine the nature and consequences of entrepreneurship, its practices and relations, as well as novel research methods for conducting empirical EaP research. Collectively, this Research Handbook marks a bright future for EaP research.
This insightful Research Handbook will provide an excellent up-to-date introduction to EaP research for entrepreneurship, management and organization scholars as well as scholars new to theories of this practice. Practitioners and researchers will also benefit from the wider perspective that this book provides in a novel, exciting and powerful way to fully understand entrepreneurship.
Contents:
Foreword ix
William B. Gartner
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as
Practice 1
Neil Aaron Thompson, Orla Byrne, Anna Jenkins and Bruce T.
Teague
PART I NEW FOUNDATIONS
1 Under what conditions is a domain-specific practice theory of
entrepreneurship possible? 21
Silvia Gherardi
2 The determinants of social change, including entrepreneurs 40
Theodore R. Schatzki
3 Paradigmatic foundations of the enactive approach to
entrepreneuring
as practice 54
Bengt Johannisson
4 Entrepreneurship as practice and problem 78
Hallur Thor Sigurdarson and Dimo Dimov
PART II NEW THEORETICAL ADVANCES
5 Cautiously creating a future-oriented manifesto for thinking
entrepreneurship as practice 92
Karen Verduijn and Camilla Eline Andersen
6 Strong Structuration Theory: an introduction and potentials
108
Tamim Elbasha and Lisa Thomas
7 Collective intentionality in entrepreneurship-as-practice 127
Steffen Farny and Ewald Kibler
8 Improvisation, routines and the practice of
entrepreneurship-as-practice 141
Richard T. Harrison and Suwen Chen
9 The artifacts of entrepreneurial practice 168
Henrik Berglund and Vern L. Glaser
PART III NEW METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES
10 Using conversation analysis to reveal talk in practice and talk
as practice 188
Betsy Campbell
11 Using digital methods for the study of
entrepreneurship-as-practice 204
Thomas Cyron
12 The challenges and methods of understanding, contextualizing
and
uncovering silent entrepreneurship practices 222
Nicole Gross
13 Entrepreneurship, practice theory and space: methodological
principles
and processes for spatial inquiry 235
Thomas Davis
14 Interviewing as social practice 250
Irina Liubertė and Miriam Feuls
15 Capturing entrepreneurial practices’ socio-materiality with
ethnography-based research 266
Inge Hill
PART IV NEW EMPIRICAL ADVANCES
16 Unpacking collective judging practices in entrepreneurial
pitching
competitions: a social practice perspective 282
Lars Hamacher, Jarrod Ormiston and Deniz Iren
17 Entrepreneuring practices: interconnected bundles for digital
servitization 298
Katja Maria Hydle, Magnus Hellström, Tor Helge Aas and Karl Joachim
Breunig
18 ‘You are angels’: understanding the entanglement of family
and
enterprise in an early-stage family-run coworking space 314
Boukje Cnossen and Julian Dominik Winter
19 Sustainable entrepreneuring: alternative world making through
shifting
associations of practice 328
Dominik Mösching and Chris Steyaert
Index
Edited by Neil Aaron Thompson, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Orla Byrne, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, UCD College of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland, Anna Jenkins, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, The University of Queensland, Australia and Bruce T. Teague, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Florida Gulf Coast University, US
‘This is an important Research Handbook for entrepreneurship
because it offers depth and variety on the practice of
entrepreneurship. Understanding the practice of entrepreneurship is
critical because it provides insights into the nuances of
entrepreneurs’ activities, relationships and communications. This
book is a wonderful resource for those interested in the
“nitty-gritty” of entrepreneurial phenomena.’
*Dean A. Shepherd, Notre Dame University, US*
‘This Research Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars
aiming to use practice theory to take a fresh look at
entrepreneurship phenomena and generate novel theorizing. The Parts
lay out the foundation and theoretical background to this new
approach to entrepreneurship, and then provide methodological
approaches for conducting research and illustrate the type of
phenomena that can be illuminated by a practice approach. A really
interesting and thought-provoking Handbook that will take both
entrepreneurship and practice theorizing forward.’
*Paula Jarzabkowski, University of London, UK*
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