Entrepreneurship and process studies
Journal
International Small Business Journal
ISSN
0266-2426
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Abstract
Process studies put movement, change and flow first; to study processually is to consider the world as restless, something underway, becoming and perishing, without end. To understand firms processually is to accept but also – and this is harder perhaps – to absorb this fluidity, to treat a variable as just that, a variable. The resonance with entrepreneurship studies is obvious. If any field is alive to, and fully resonant with, a processual understanding of, for example, the creation of firms, it is entrepreneurship studies. This special issue is an attempt to consider the promise and potential of processual approaches to studying, researching and practising entrepreneurship. The articles in the issue attest to an increasing sensitivity to processual thinking. We argue that appreciating entrepreneurial phenomena processually opens up the field to an understanding of entrepreneurship as organizational creation – not simply the creation of new organizations but also experiments in new organizational form
Language
English
Keywords
entrepreneurship studies
organization-creation
process
process philosophy
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
SAGE
Volume
33
Number
6
Start page
599
End page
611
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
253563