Collective intentionality in entrepreneurship-as-practice
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Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice. ed. / Neil A. Thompson; Orla Byrne; Anna Jenkins; Bruce T. Teague. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. p. 127-140 (Handbooks of Business and Management Research as Practice).
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T1 - Collective intentionality in entrepreneurship-as-practice
AU - Farny, Steffen
AU - Kibler, Ewald
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Neil Aaron Thompson, Orla Byrne, Anna Jenkins and Bruce T. Teague 2022 All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Following principles of practice theory, entrepreneurship-as-practice (EAP) argues that entrepreneuring is a genuinely collective phenomenon. EAP seeks to overcome the dominant investigative focus on individual entrepreneurs and instead studies people's shared understandings. In response, we develop the theoretical underpinnings of collective intentionality in entrepreneurship to emphasize sharedness and togetherness in entrepreneurial action. This "we-perspective" argues for joint action as a main unit of analysis and, hence, ascertains that practices in EAP are conceptualized via people's shared understanding. To do so, the chapter views people as functional group agents and introduces three kinds of intentionality underpinning joint action in entrepreneurship: a weaker Shared Intentionality, and stronger Joint Intentionality and We-Intentionality. We conceptualize collective intentionality as a useful analytical aid to study collective entrepreneurial action and to provide guidance for large-scale socio-technical adaptations. All in all, we argue that such a collective approach is useful to entrepreneurially address grand social and sustainability challenges of our time.
AB - Following principles of practice theory, entrepreneurship-as-practice (EAP) argues that entrepreneuring is a genuinely collective phenomenon. EAP seeks to overcome the dominant investigative focus on individual entrepreneurs and instead studies people's shared understandings. In response, we develop the theoretical underpinnings of collective intentionality in entrepreneurship to emphasize sharedness and togetherness in entrepreneurial action. This "we-perspective" argues for joint action as a main unit of analysis and, hence, ascertains that practices in EAP are conceptualized via people's shared understanding. To do so, the chapter views people as functional group agents and introduces three kinds of intentionality underpinning joint action in entrepreneurship: a weaker Shared Intentionality, and stronger Joint Intentionality and We-Intentionality. We conceptualize collective intentionality as a useful analytical aid to study collective entrepreneurial action and to provide guidance for large-scale socio-technical adaptations. All in all, we argue that such a collective approach is useful to entrepreneurially address grand social and sustainability challenges of our time.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/afe0816e-da66-38e0-831f-2ecb7d8204e7/
U2 - 10.4337/9781788976831.00015
DO - 10.4337/9781788976831.00015
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85136659682
SN - 978-1-78897-682-4
T3 - Handbooks of Business and Management Research as Practice
SP - 127
EP - 140
BT - Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice
A2 - Thompson, Neil A.
A2 - Byrne, Orla
A2 - Jenkins, Anna
A2 - Teague, Bruce T.
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
CY - Cheltenham
ER -