Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future - Stories From Global Frontiers

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Joost Beuving, Beuving Joost
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781805390046
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-004-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy; Max Planck Studies in Anthropo
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Business innovation, Social and cultural anthropology, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Political and Economic Anthropology; Sociology