TY - JOUR

T1 - How art becomes organization

T2 - Reimagining aesthetics, sites and politics of entrepreneurship

AU - Holm, Ditte Vilstrup

AU - Beyes, Timon

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021.

PY - 2022/2/1

Y1 - 2022/2/1

N2 - Art and entrepreneurship both demonstrate a particular power to experiment with how the social is apprehended, organized and inhabited. How can we then understand and theorize the particular power of art understood as entrepreneurial organizing? In this paper, we develop the concept of artistic entrepreneuring. It is based on contemporary art’s wide-ranging ‘organizational turn’, where art becomes organization by experimenting with forms and processes of emancipatory organizing. Interweaving art theory, examples of art’s organizational turn and a processual understanding of public entrepreneurship, we conceptualize artistic entrepreneuring as fundamentally aesthetic, necessarily sited and invariably political, and we discuss the implications for entrepreneurship studies and research on the aesthetics and politics of organizing.

AB - Art and entrepreneurship both demonstrate a particular power to experiment with how the social is apprehended, organized and inhabited. How can we then understand and theorize the particular power of art understood as entrepreneurial organizing? In this paper, we develop the concept of artistic entrepreneuring. It is based on contemporary art’s wide-ranging ‘organizational turn’, where art becomes organization by experimenting with forms and processes of emancipatory organizing. Interweaving art theory, examples of art’s organizational turn and a processual understanding of public entrepreneurship, we conceptualize artistic entrepreneuring as fundamentally aesthetic, necessarily sited and invariably political, and we discuss the implications for entrepreneurship studies and research on the aesthetics and politics of organizing.

KW - aesthetics

KW - commoning

KW - contemporary art

KW - organizing

KW - politics

KW - public art

KW - public entrepreneurship

KW - Rancière

KW - social entrepreneurship

KW - space

KW - Entrepreneurship

KW - Management studies

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U2 - 10.1177/0170840621998571

DO - 10.1177/0170840621998571

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85103908200

VL - 43

SP - 227

EP - 245

JO - Organization Studies

JF - Organization Studies

SN - 0170-8406

IS - 2

ER -