Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice (Handbooks of Business and Management Research as Practice series)

This Research Handbook advances entrepreneurship theory in new ways by integrating and contributing to contemporary theories of practice. Leading practice theorists and entrepreneurship experts, who are part of the growing Entrepreneurship as Practice (EaP) research community, expertly propose methodologies, theories and empirical insights into the constitution and consequences of entrepreneuring practices. This comprehensive Research Handbook pushes boundaries in scholarship about what entrepreneurship is and what it can become. It is split into four parts covering new foundations, new theoretical advances and methodological advances. Together, with an insightful Foreword by William B. Gartner, chapters examine insights into the nature and consequences of entrepreneurship, its practices and relations, as well as novel research methods for conducting empirical EaP research. Collectively, this Handbook marks a bright future for EaP research. This insightful Research Handbook will provide an excellent up-to-date introduction to EaP research for entrepreneurship, management and organization scholars as well as scholars new to theories of practice. Practitioners and researchers will also benefit from the wider perspective that this book provides in a novel, exciting and powerful way to fully understand entrepreneurship. Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors Foreword Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice PART I NEW FOUNDATIONS 1. Under what conditions is a domain-specific practice theory of entrepreneurship possible? 2. The determinants of social change, including entrepreneurs 3. Paradigmatic foundations of the enactive approach to entrepreneuring as practice 4. Entrepreneurship as practice and problem PART II NEW THEORETICAL ADVANCES 5. Cautiously creating a future-oriented manifesto for thinking entrepreneurship as practice 6. Strong Structuration Theory: an introduction and potentials 7. Collective intentionality in entrepreneurship-as-practice 8. Improvisation, routines and the practice of entrepreneurship-as-practice 9. The artifacts of entrepreneurial practice PART III NEW METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES 10. Using conversation analysis to reveal talk in practice and talk as practice 11. Using digital methods for the study of entrepreneurship-as-practice 12. The challenges and methods of understanding, contextualizing and uncovering silent entrepreneurship practices 13. Entrepreneurship, practice theory and space: methodological principles and processes for spatial inquiry 14. Interviewing as social practice 15. Capturing entrepreneurial practices’ socio-materiality with ethnography-based research PART IV NEW EMPIRICAL ADVANCES 16. Unpacking collective judging practices in entrepreneurial pitching competitions: a social practice perspective 17. Entrepreneuring practices: interconnected bundles for digital servitization 18. ‘You are angels’: understanding the entanglement of family and enterprise in an early-stage family-run coworking space 19. Sustainable entrepreneuring: alternative world making through shifting associations of practice Index