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A curiosity for contexts: Entrepreneurship, enactive research and autoethnography

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Long before the current vogue for acknowledging contexts and contextualisation processes in the research process, Johannisson's pioneering scholarship provoked different conceptual and methodological experimentations that were oriented to context. Bengt's unceasing curiosity for understanding how particular localities, communities, networks, industrial districts, regions and families produce embed and enact entrepreneurial activities is a testament to his belief in the importance of the ‘organising context’ for entrepreneurship. In this study, I discuss how Bengt's theoretical and methodological sensitivity to context has provided a strong legacy for the entrepreneurship field, not least because it has opened up possibilities for innovative research methodologies that locate the researcher as situated actor but also because it emphasises participative and relational forms of entrepreneurial action that reshape or transform self-other boundaries.

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  • Denise E. Fletcher, 2011. "A curiosity for contexts: Entrepreneurship, enactive research and autoethnography," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(1-2), pages 65-76, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:entreg:v:23:y:2011:i:1-2:p:65-76
    DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2011.540414
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    1. Alexander Chepurenko, 2015. "Entrepreneurship Theory: New Challenges and Future Prospects," Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), National Research University Higher School of Economics, vol. 9(2), pages 44-57.
      • Alexander Chepurenko, 2015. "Entrepreneurship Theory: New Challenges and Future Prospects," Foresight-Russia Форсайт, CyberLeninka;Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики», vol. 9(2 (eng)), pages 44-57.
    2. Pedeliento, Giuseppe & Bettinelli, Cristina & Andreini, Daniela & Bergamaschi, Mara, 2018. "Consumer entrepreneurship and cultural innovation: The case of GinO12," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 431-442.
    3. Anne Tryba & Denise Fletcher, 2020. "How shared pre-start-up moments of transition and cognitions contextualize effectual and causal decisions in entrepreneurial teams," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 54(3), pages 665-688, March.
    4. Natalia Vershinina & Allan Discua Cruz, 2021. "Researching migrant entrepreneurship communities: a reflection through collaborative (auto)ethnographies," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 507-526, June.
    5. Natalia Vershinina & Allan Discua Cruz, 2021. "Researching migrant entrepreneurship communities: a reflection through collaborative (auto)ethnographies," Post-Print hal-03275304, HAL.
    6. Amba Maria Erkelens & Neil Aaron Thompson & Dominic Chalmers, 2024. "The dynamic construction of an incubation context: a practice theory perspective," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 62(2), pages 583-605, February.
    7. Michiel Verver & Juliette Koning, 2024. "An anthropological perspective on contextualizing entrepreneurship," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 62(2), pages 649-665, February.
    8. Elco Van Burg & Joep Cornelissen & Wouter Stam & Sarah Jack, 2022. "Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 46(1), pages 3-20, January.

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