This Research Handbook advances entrepreneurship theory in new ways by integrating and contributing to contemporary theories of practice. Leading theorists and entrepreneurship experts, who are part of the growing Entrepreneurship as Practice (EaP) research community, expertly propose methodologies, theories and empirical insights into the constitution and consequences of entrepreneuring practices.   This comprehensive Research Handbook pushes boundaries in the scholarship concerning what entrepreneurship is and what it can become. It is split into four Parts covering new foundations, new theoretical advances, new methodological advances and new empirical advances. Together, with an insightful Foreword by William B. Gartner, chapters examine the nature and consequences of entrepreneurship, its practices and relations, as well as novel research methods for conducting empirical EaP research. Collectively, this Research Handbook marks a bright future for EaP research. This insightful Research Handbook will provide an excellent up-to-date introduction to EaP research for entrepreneurship, management and organization scholars as well as scholars new to theories of this practice. Practitioners and researchers will also benefit from the wider perspective that this book provides in a novel, exciting and powerful way to fully understand entrepreneurship.

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Contents: Foreword ix William B. Gartner Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice 1 Neil Aaron Thompson, Orla Byrne, Anna Jenkins and Bruce T. Teague PART I NEW FOUNDATIONS 1 Under what conditions is a domain-specific practice theory of entrepreneurship possible? 21 Silvia Gherardi 2 The determinants of social change, including entrepreneurs 40 Theodore R. Schatzki 3 Paradigmatic foundations of the enactive approach to entrepreneuring as practice 54 Bengt Johannisson 4 Entrepreneurship as practice and problem 78 Hallur Thor Sigurdarson and Dimo Dimov PART II NEW THEORETICAL ADVANCES 5 Cautiously creating a future-oriented manifesto for thinking entrepreneurship as practice 92 Karen Verduijn and Camilla Eline Andersen 6 Strong Structuration Theory: an introduction and potentials 108 Tamim Elbasha and Lisa Thomas 7 Collective intentionality in entrepreneurship-as-practice 127 Steffen Farny and Ewald Kibler 8 Improvisation, routines and the practice of entrepreneurship-as-practice 141 Richard T. Harrison and Suwen Chen 9 The artifacts of entrepreneurial practice 168 Henrik Berglund and Vern L. Glaser PART III NEW METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES 10 Using conversation analysis to reveal talk in practice and talk as practice 188 Betsy Campbell 11 Using digital methods for the study of entrepreneurship-as-practice 204 Thomas Cyron 12 The challenges and methods of understanding, contextualizing and uncovering silent entrepreneurship practices 222 Nicole Gross 13 Entrepreneurship, practice theory and space: methodological principles and processes for spatial inquiry 235 Thomas Davis 14 Interviewing as social practice 250 Irina Liubertė and Miriam Feuls 15 Capturing entrepreneurial practices’ socio-materiality with ethnography-based research 266 Inge Hill PART IV NEW EMPIRICAL ADVANCES 16 Unpacking collective judging practices in entrepreneurial pitching competitions: a social practice perspective 282 Lars Hamacher, Jarrod Ormiston and Deniz Iren 17 Entrepreneuring practices: interconnected bundles for digital servitization 298 Katja Maria Hydle, Magnus Hellström, Tor Helge Aas and Karl Joachim Breunig 18 ‘You are angels’: understanding the entanglement of family and enterprise in an early-stage family-run coworking space 314 Boukje Cnossen and Julian Dominik Winter 19 Sustainable entrepreneuring: alternative world making through shifting associations of practice 328 Dominik Mösching and Chris Steyaert Index