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Reclaiming the space of entrepreneurship in society: geographical, discursive and social dimensions
Chris Steyaert,Jerome A. Katz +1 more
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In this article, the implications of how to conceive entrepreneurship when considered as a societal rather than an economic phenomenon are explored and reflected upon, and three crucial and connected questions that can reconstruct the future research agendas of entrepreneurship studies and that can guide us towards a geopolitics of everyday entrepreneurship are developed.Abstract:
This paper seeks to explore and to reflect upon the implications of how to conceive entrepreneurship when considered as a societal rather than an economic phenomenon. To conceive and reclaim the space in which entrepreneurship is seen at work in society, we point at the geographical, discursive and social dimensions from where we develop three crucial and connected questions that can reconstruct the future research agendas of entrepreneurship studies and that can guide us towards a geopolitics of everyday entrepreneurship: what spaces/discourses/stakeholders have we privileged in the study of entrepreneurship and what other spaces/discourses/stakeholders could we consider?read more
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Social Entrepreneurship Reserach: a Source of Explanation, Prediction and Delight
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Contextualizing Entrepreneurship—Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward:
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Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations:A Review and Research Agenda*
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The relational organization of entrepreneurial ecosystems
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Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory: Evolutionary Paths and Future Advances:
TL;DR: Organizational knowledge creation is the process of making available and amplifying knowledge created by individuals as well as crystallizing and connecting it to an organization's knowledge system as discussed by the authors, in other words, what individuals come to know in their (work-)life benefits their colleagues and, eventually, the larger organization.
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