Item Type | Journal paper |
Abstract | In this article, we argue that there is a need to theorize the relationship between entrepreneurship and the political beyond the currently dominant neo-liberal and emancipatory narrative by turning to an onto-political conception of entrepreneurship based on the processes of entrepreneurial experimentation. In entrepreneurship studies, the relevance and the potential of experimentation for shaping new organizational realities has only been explored marginally. Through re-reading the thinking on ‘experimental systems’ by the science historian Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and connecting it to Annemarie Mol’s notion of ‘ontological politics’, we develop a conceptual framework for entrepreneurial experimentation which we document with the illustration of an art enterprise. The framework that we propose focuses on the interwoven embodied, material and processual dynamics of entrepreneurial experimentation and reframes entrepreneurial world-making as a speculative process driven by material reconfigurations and bodily connections. As a consequence, we argue that this model is able to emphasize the intricate political dimension inscribed in processes of entrepreneurial experimentation through their onto-political force of reconfiguring systems of ‘self-others-things’. Furthermore, the model highlights that this capacity of ‘world-making’ cannot be realized without articulating the tensions and resistances that entrepreneurial endeavours often need to navigate and negotiate while reconfiguring and challenging dominant socio-material orders. |
Authors | Lüthy, Christina & Steyaert, Chris |
Journal or Publication Title | Entrepreneurship & Regional Development |
Language | English |
Keywords | Onto-politics, experimentation, world-making, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, socio-materiality, embodiment, processuality, the zero star hotel |
Subjects | cultural studies |
HSG Classification | contribution to scientific community |
HSG Profile Area | SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM) |
Refereed | Yes |
Date | 8 April 2019 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Volume | 31 |
Number | 7-8 |
Page Range | 652-668 |
Number of Pages | 17 |
ISSN | 0898-5626 |
ISSN-Digital | 1464-5114 |
Publisher DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2019.1596360 |
Depositing User | Christina Ihasz |
Date Deposited | 08 Apr 2019 09:56 |
Last Modified | 29 Aug 2019 13:34 |
URI: | https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/256952 |
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