Entrepreneurship as in(ter)vention : Reconsidering the conceptual politics of method in entrepreneurship studies
Journal
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
ISSN
0898-5626
ISSN-Digital
1464-5114
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2011-01
Author(s)
Abstract
Special Issue: A Festschrift for Bengt Johannisson
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-a-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
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-a-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
Language
English
Keywords
intervention
invention
methodology
experimentation
enactment
performance
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publisher place
Oxfordshire
Volume
23
Number
1-2: Festschrift for Bengt Johannisson
Start page
77
End page
88
Pages
12
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
86920
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