Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future

Stories from Global Frontiers

Joost Beuving (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-004-6 (ISBN)

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Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future, looking at their social practices, language and rituals through which they neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as ‘future-work’: the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study is grounded in ethnographic case material from global frontiers: second-hand car dealers in West Africa; exporters of fresh fish from Lake Victoria, East Africa; farmed fish entrepreneurs in Greece; and investment bankers in Financial America. It targets students and scholars from the social sciences and economics, and it has theoretical and practical implications.

Joost Beuving is a lecturer and senior researcher in economic anthropology, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the co-author of Doing Qualitative Research: The Craft of Naturalistic Inquiry with Geert de Vries (Amsterdam University Press, 2015).

List of Illustrations

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Problem of the Future in Studying Entrepreneurship

Chapter 1. Time and Entrepreneurship in Social Theory: Barth, Schumpeter and Keynes

Chapter 2. The Social Construction of Individualism: Fish Entrepreneurs on Lake Victoria, Uganda

Chapter 3. Profitmaking and Dreaming of Fortunes: Second-hand Car Dealers in Cotonou, Benin

Chapter 4. Telling Stories with Numbers: The Social Life of Investment Bankers

Chapter 5. The Relevance of the Policy Context: Aquaculture Entrepreneurs in Greece

Conclusion

Epilogue

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-80539-004-X / 180539004X
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-004-6 / 9781805390046
Zustand	Neuware