Open AccessOrganizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring: Introduction to the Special Issue
Author(s) -
Daniel Hjorth,
Trish Reay
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
organization studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.441
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1741-3044
pISSN - 0170-8406
DOI - 10.1177/01708406211068499
Subject(s) - scholarship , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , organization studies , foundation (evidence) , context (archaeology) , process (computing) , organizational learning , knowledge base , epistemology , engineering ethics , public relations , knowledge management , political science , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , world wide web , law , biology , engineering , operating system
In our Introduction to this Special Issue on Organizational and Institutional Entrepreneuring, we draw attention to the importance of recognizing how processes and practices of entrepreneuring take place in the context of an already organized world. We particularly draw attention to how such entrepreneuring processes, as imaginative-poetic extensions beyond the present, can occur in a variety of societal, institutional and organizational contexts. Overall we focus on entrepreneuring as the process of creating organization. As a result, we believe that important insights arise by drawing attention to ways of ‘starting’ and ‘actualizing’, rather than conceptualizing entrepreneurship as something that was already ‘started’ in the past. This Special Issue thus helps to provide much-needed scholarship that expands our knowledge base and provides a foundation for future research. We conclude our Introduction with a summary of the articles making up this Special Issue, noting the ways that each article helps to advance our knowledge base about the processes of entrepreneuring.