Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice

Edited by Neil Aaron Thompson, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Orla Byrne, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, UCD College of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland, Anna Jenkins, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, The University of Queensland, Australia and Bruce T. Teague, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Florida Gulf Coast University, US

Contents:

Foreword ix
William B. Gartner
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice 1
Neil Aaron Thompson, Orla Byrne, Anna Jenkins and Bruce T. Teague

PART I NEW FOUNDATIONS
1 Under what conditions is a domain-specific practice theory of
entrepreneurship possible? 21
Silvia Gherardi
2 The determinants of social change, including entrepreneurs 40
Theodore R. Schatzki
3 Paradigmatic foundations of the enactive approach to entrepreneuring
as practice 54
Bengt Johannisson
4 Entrepreneurship as practice and problem 78
Hallur Thor Sigurdarson and Dimo Dimov

PART II NEW THEORETICAL ADVANCES
5 Cautiously creating a future-oriented manifesto for thinking
entrepreneurship as practice 92
Karen Verduijn and Camilla Eline Andersen
6 Strong Structuration Theory: an introduction and potentials 108
Tamim Elbasha and Lisa Thomas
7 Collective intentionality in entrepreneurship-as-practice 127
Steffen Farny and Ewald Kibler
8 Improvisation, routines and the practice of entrepreneurship-as-practice 141
Richard T. Harrison and Suwen Chen
9 The artifacts of entrepreneurial practice 168
Henrik Berglund and Vern L. Glaser

PART III NEW METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES
10 Using conversation analysis to reveal talk in practice and talk as practice 188
Betsy Campbell
11 Using digital methods for the study of entrepreneurship-as-practice 204
Thomas Cyron
12 The challenges and methods of understanding, contextualizing and
uncovering silent entrepreneurship practices 222
Nicole Gross
13 Entrepreneurship, practice theory and space: methodological principles
and processes for spatial inquiry 235
Thomas Davis
14 Interviewing as social practice 250
Irina Liubertė and Miriam Feuls
15 Capturing entrepreneurial practices’ socio-materiality with
ethnography-based research 266
Inge Hill

PART IV NEW EMPIRICAL ADVANCES
16 Unpacking collective judging practices in entrepreneurial pitching
competitions: a social practice perspective 282
Lars Hamacher, Jarrod Ormiston and Deniz Iren
17 Entrepreneuring practices: interconnected bundles for digital servitization 298
Katja Maria Hydle, Magnus Hellström, Tor Helge Aas and Karl Joachim Breunig
18 ‘You are angels’: understanding the entanglement of family and
enterprise in an early-stage family-run coworking space 314
Boukje Cnossen and Julian Dominik Winter
19 Sustainable entrepreneuring: alternative world making through shifting
associations of practice 328
Dominik Mösching and Chris Steyaert


Index