Entrepreneurship as in(ter)vention: Reconsidering the conceptual politics of method in entrepreneurship studies

Social Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Framework

The area of Social entrepreneurship has become an important issue of contemporary relevance in academic literature and research. The paper puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that brings social change or addresses important social needs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing form other forms of enterprise where a high priority is given to promote social value and ...

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction. However, at a micro level investm...

Entrepreneurship as organizing - A literature study of entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship as Expectations Management

Entrepreneurial profits flow from differences in expectations between buyers and sellers regarding the future value of resources. The current paper investigates whether differences in expectations can be manipulated, molded, or manufactured by an entrepreneur to produce greater profits. It is concluded that a range of techniques are available to manage expectations and that the use of these tec...

Organizational Entrepreneurship as Projective Action

This article applies sociological action theory to model collective accomplishment of novel outcomes through coordinated and planned processes. The theoretical model provides a collaborative social perspective on the emergence of novelty and innovation in organizations. According to the model, individuals form projections of the future by recombining and adjusting existing institutionalized hab...