Entrepreneurship As Practice

<p>This innovative book takes seriously the ordinary activities of entrepreneurship and maps out new pathways for scholars to understand the nature, properties, and implications of studying practices for entrepreneurship studies.</p><p>Entrepreneurship is neither an art nor a science, but a bundle of practices, as Peter Drucker once observed. Curiously however, academic research on entrepreneurship mostly abstracts away from practical activity. In contrast, <i>Entrepreneurship As Practice</i> takes ordinary activities of entrepreneurship seriously by mapping out new pathways for scholars to consider the everyday practices through which entrepreneurship occurs. Each chapter draws on contemporary theories of practice to illuminate the nature, properties, and implications of studying the practices of entrepreneurship. </p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal <i>Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.</i></p> <p>1. Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies</p><p>Neil A. Thompson, Karen Verduijn and William B. Gartner</p><p>2. Practising entrepreneuring as emplacement: the impact of sensation and anticipation in entrepreneurial action</p><p>Elena P. Antonacopoulou and Ted Fuller</p><p>3. Entrepreneurship as practice: systematic literature review of a nascent field</p><p>Champenois Claire, Vincent Lefebvre and Sébastien Ronteau</p><p>4. Reflecting with Pierre Bourdieu: towards a reflexive outlook for practice-based studies of entrepreneurship</p><p>Chrysavgi Sklaveniti and Chris Steyaert</p><p>5. Different pitches for different stages of entrepreneurial development: the practice of pitching to business angels</p><p>Bruce Teague, M. David Gorton and Yanxin Liu</p>