TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurship-as-practice
T2 - grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies
AU - Thompson, Neil A.
AU - Verduijn, Karen
AU - Gartner, William B.
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - 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 phenomena as the enactment and entanglement of practices orients researchers to an ontological understanding of entrepreneuring as relational, material and processual. Therefore, practice theories direct scholars towards observing and explaining the real-time practices of entrepreneuring practitioners. Articles in this special issue on ‘entrepreneurship-as-practice’ are discussed and suggestions for future research and scholarship that utilize contemporary theorizations of practice are offered.
AB - 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 phenomena as the enactment and entanglement of practices orients researchers to an ontological understanding of entrepreneuring as relational, material and processual. Therefore, practice theories direct scholars towards observing and explaining the real-time practices of entrepreneuring practitioners. Articles in this special issue on ‘entrepreneurship-as-practice’ are discussed and suggestions for future research and scholarship that utilize contemporary theorizations of practice are offered.
KW - entanglement
KW - entrepreneuring
KW - Entrepreneurship-as-practice
KW - nexus of practices
KW - relational epistemology
KW - site ontology
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U2 - 10.1080/08985626.2019.1641978
DO - 10.1080/08985626.2019.1641978
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85081904678
SN - 0898-5626
VL - 32
SP - 247
EP - 256
JO - Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
JF - Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
IS - 3-4
ER -