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View article: How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens
How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens Open
We conceptualize the family business as a community of practice to advance an understanding of how individuals involved in family businesses collectively learn about family practices and how such practices are created, maintained, and tran…
View article: Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda
Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda Open
This article maps and integrates research on legacy in family business using a sample of 140 articles. After describing the process of arriving at a corpus of legacy articles, we propose a systematic literature review that summarizes curre…
View article: A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship
A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship Open
Purpose This conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and becoming of entrepreneurial phenomena in business familie…
View article: Learning in a Family Business Through Intermarriage: A Rhetorical History Perspective
Learning in a Family Business Through Intermarriage: A Rhetorical History Perspective Open
We use concepts from rhetorical history and mnemonic communities to expand on the notion of “intermarriage” in a family business as the merger of shared histories among family members, nonfamily members, and individuals from other families…
View article: A Historical Intervention in the “Opportunity Wars”: Forgotten Scholarship, the Discovery/Creation Disruption, and Moving Forward by Looking Backward
A Historical Intervention in the “Opportunity Wars”: Forgotten Scholarship, the Discovery/Creation Disruption, and Moving Forward by Looking Backward Open
There are two battles at the heart of the “opportunity wars”: (1) Are opportunities discovered or created, and (2) Should we perhaps abandon the opportunity concept altogether? We argue that the first question is a pseudo-question, made po…
View article: In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges
In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges Open
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View article: ‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices
‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices Open
This paper theorizes the spiritual processes of community entrepreneuring as navigating tensions that arise when community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge within communities and generate socio-economic inequality. Grounded on an ethnograph…
View article: Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies
Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies Open
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 entangleme…
View article: Forging Forms of Authority through the Sociomateriality of Food in Partial Organizations
Forging Forms of Authority through the Sociomateriality of Food in Partial Organizations Open
This study theorizes on the sociomateriality of food in authority-building processes of partial organizations by exploring alternative food networks (AFNs). Through the construction of arenas for food provisioning, AFNs represent grassroot…
View article: Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies
Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies Open
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 entangleme…
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He is a member of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) board of directors
View article: A brief history of the idea of opportunity
A brief history of the idea of opportunity Open
This chapter explores this question: What was known about "opportunity" before scholars began treating it as the "distinctive domain of entrepreneurship" (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000)? The chapter focuses on uncovering and recognizing a s…
View article: Entrepreneurship as practice: grounding contemporary practice theory into entrepreneurship studies
Entrepreneurship as practice: grounding contemporary practice theory into entrepreneurship studies Open
With this special issue we aim at furthering the entrepreneurship as practice perspective by grounding the broader and contemporary ‘practice turn’ in social science (Schatzki, Knorr-Cetina, and vo...
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17 Blank, Steve role in development of the Lean Start-up Model 17 Blomaaert, J. 37 'Context is/as critique' (2001) 38 Bluedorn, Allen C. concept of temporal focus 56 Borges, Jorge Luis Seven Nights (1984) 29 Bourdieu, Pierre 38, 121 concep…
View article: The context of contextualizing contexts
The context of contextualizing contexts Open
This chapter provides a context for a discussion of contexts in entrepreneurship through the form of a conversation that begins with insights into our motivations for focusing on context: looking at differences and variation. Suggestions a…
View article: Perspectives on Arts Entrepreneurship, Part 2
Perspectives on Arts Entrepreneurship, Part 2 Open
William B. Gartner: Arts Entrepreneurship: Scope, Practice and Community. Contribution to the opinion series “Perspectives” on arts entrepreneurship; how arts entrepreneurship is situated in relation to other disciplines or fields; what pr…