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Entrepreneurship as in(ter)vention: Reconsidering the conceptual politics of method in entrepreneurship studies

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  • Chris Steyaert

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In this article, I look into Bengt Johannisson's experiments with enactive research in the so-called Anamorphosis Project. This methodological experiment was based on the assumption that to understand entrepreneurship, researchers themselves must enact an entrepreneurial process and reflect upon it by engaging in auto-ethnography. By connecting aesthetics and politics, this experiment guides us in seeing methodologies as more than just tools -- actually as in(ter)ventions or inventive forms of intervening vis-à-vis societal or community issues. By conceptualizing the performance of scholarship as involving practices of enacting and engaging, I suggest entrepreneurship scholars to take into account the ontological politics of method and to anticipate what can be called methodological experimentation. Drawing upon non-representational theory and actor-network theory, I flesh out the notion of in(ter)vention by emphasizing both its performative and participative dimension.

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  • Chris Steyaert, 2011. "Entrepreneurship as in(ter)vention: Reconsidering the conceptual politics of method in entrepreneurship studies," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(1-2), pages 77-88, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:entreg:v:23:y:2011:i:1-2:p:77-88
    DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2011.540416
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    1. David Courpasson & Françoise Dany & Ignasi Martí, 2016. "Organizational Entrepreneurship as Active Resistance: A Struggle against Outsourcing," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 40(1), pages 131-160, January.
    2. Adrienne Callander & Michael E. Cummings, 2021. "Liminal spaces: A review of the art in entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship in art," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 57(2), pages 739-754, August.
    3. Lene Foss & Colette Henry & Helene Ahl & Geir H. Mikalsen, 2019. "Women’s entrepreneurship policy research: a 30-year review of the evidence," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 53(2), pages 409-429, August.

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