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 ixWilliam B. GartnerIntroduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice 1Neil Aaron Thompson, Orla Byrne, Anna Jenkins and Bruce T. TeaguePART I NEW FOUNDATIONS1 Under what conditions is a domain-specific practice theory ofentrepreneurship possible? 21Silvia Gherardi2 The determinants of social change, including entrepreneurs 40Theodore R. Schatzki3 Paradigmatic foundations of the enactive approach to entrepreneuringas practice 54Bengt Johannisson4 Entrepreneurship as practice and problem 78Hallur Thor Sigurdarson and Dimo DimovPART II NEW THEORETICAL ADVANCES5 Cautiously creating a future-oriented manifesto for thinkingentrepreneurship as practice 92Karen Verduijn and Camilla Eline Andersen6 Strong Structuration Theory: an introduction and potentials 108Tamim Elbasha and Lisa Thomas7 Collective intentionality in entrepreneurship-as-practice 127Steffen Farny and Ewald Kibler8 Improvisation, routines and the practice of entrepreneurship-as-practice 141Richard T. Harrison and Suwen Chen9 The artifacts of entrepreneurial practice 168Henrik Berglund and Vern L. GlaserPART III NEW METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES10 Using conversation analysis to reveal talk in practice and talk as practice 188Betsy Campbell11 Using digital methods for the study of entrepreneurship-as-practice 204Thomas Cyron12 The challenges and methods of understanding, contextualizing anduncovering silent entrepreneurship practices 222Nicole Gross13 Entrepreneurship, practice theory and space: methodological principlesand processes for spatial inquiry 235Thomas Davis14 Interviewing as social practice 250Irina Liubertė and Miriam Feuls15 Capturing entrepreneurial practices’ socio-materiality withethnography-based research 266Inge HillPART IV NEW EMPIRICAL ADVANCES16 Unpacking collective judging practices in entrepreneurial pitchingcompetitions: a social practice perspective 282Lars Hamacher, Jarrod Ormiston and Deniz Iren17 Entrepreneuring practices: interconnected bundles for digital servitization 298Katja Maria Hydle, Magnus Hellström, Tor Helge Aas and Karl Joachim Breunig18 ‘You are angels’: understanding the entanglement of family andenterprise in an early-stage family-run coworking space 314Boukje Cnossen and Julian Dominik Winter19 Sustainable entrepreneuring: alternative world making through shiftingassociations of practice 328Dominik Mösching and Chris SteyaertIndex

‘This is an important Research Handbook for entrepreneurship because it offers depth and variety on the practice of entrepreneurship. Understanding the practice of entrepreneurship is critical because it provides insights into the nuances of entrepreneurs’ activities, relationships and communications. This book is a wonderful resource for those interested in the “nitty-gritty” of entrepreneurial phenomena.’