Entrepreneurship and the Creation of Organization

By re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship, this book develops a process theory of entrepreneurship by exploring how key concepts in such a theory - affect, desire, assemblage - allow us to think about entrepreneurship differently.

List of contents

Part I 1. Romanticism and wonder 2. Resonance, Individuality and the Entrepreneur 3. Assemblage and Desire 4. Entrepreneurship as Organization Creation Part II 5. Organization Creation I: Seduction - Wolfgang Mozart and Søren Kierkegaard’s Don Giovanni & William Shakespeare’s Iago 6. Organization Creation II: Play - Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway & Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking 7. Organization Creation III: Common Sense - Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennett & Nicoli Gogol’s Chichikov 8. Organization Creation IV: Commerce - Maurice Stendhal’s Julien Sorel & Patricia Highsmith’s Thomas Ripley Part III 9. Entrepreneurship as Fabrication

About the author

Daniel Hjorth is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organisation at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Professor at Nottingham Business School, the UK.
Robin Holt is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organisation at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Summary

By re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship, this book develops a process theory of entrepreneurship by exploring how key concepts in such a theory – affect, desire, assemblage – allow us to think about entrepreneurship differently.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Hjorth, Daniel (Copenhagen Business School Hjorth, Hjorth Daniel, Robin Holt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032247373
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3224737-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Organizational theory & behaviour, Organizational theory and behaviour, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups