Entrepreneurship As Practice - 9781032046334

Taylor & Francis

Entrepreneurship As PracticeGrounding Contemporary Theories of Practice into Entrepreneurship Studies\nAuthor(s): Neil Aaron Thompson, Karen Verduijn, William B. Gartner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032046334, 978-1032046334\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nEntrepreneurship 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, Entrepreneurship As Practice 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 contempo.