Heidegger and Entrepreneurship

Håvard Åsvoll is Associate Professor of Organization and Management at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Nord University, Norway.

1. Introduction



1.1 How to respond to Nothing?



1.2. Heidegger and entrepreneurial oriented literature



Part 1 Three assumptions of entrepreneurial theory and the potential of Nothing entrepreneurial theory



2. Why assumptions in entrepreneurial theory do not work for explaining phenomena of Nothing



2.1 Becoming versus Being



2.2 Decision making versus being-there/dwelling



2.3 Activity versus passivity






Part 2 Towards a Theory of "Nothing" in entrepreneurial practice



3 Introduction on Heidegger and philosophy of Being and Nothing



3.1 Being-there, being-in-the-world,



3.2 Being-in-the-World as technology and enframing



3.3 Narrowing the scope: on Theory of Nothing



3.4 Nothingness and the experience of ‘Nothing’



3.5 "The dwelling place" as ethical construct and perception of time






4. Vignettes and examples






4.1 Technology and the applicable paradigm



4.2 Angst and nothing in entrepreneurial life






5. Outlining a model of nothing modes



5.1 Surfacing nothing



5.2 Embedding nothing



5.3 Sharing nothing



5.4 Inducing nothing






Part 3 Implications of A Theory of Nothing






6 Implications



6.1 Implications for entrepreneurial research



6.2 Implications for entrepreneurial theory



6.3 Implications for entrepreneurial education






7 Conclusion: Nothing as the nascent and revitalizing entrepreneurship