Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future, looking at their social practices, language and rituals through which they neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as 'future-work': the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study is grounded in ethnographic case material from global frontiers: second-hand car dealers in West Africa; exporters of fresh fish from Lake Victoria, East Africa; farmed fish entrepreneurs in Greece; and investment bankers in Financial America. It targets students and scholars from the social sciences and economics, and it has theoretical and practical implications.
| ISBN: | 9781805390046 |
| Publication date: | 9th June 2023 |
| Author: | Joost Beuving |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy |
| Genres: |
Business innovation Social and cultural anthropology Entrepreneurship / Start-ups |
Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future, looking at their social practices, language and rituals through which they neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as 'future-work': the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study is grounded in ethnographic case material from global frontiers: second-hand car dealers in West Africa; exporters of fresh fish from Lake Victoria, East Africa; farmed fish entrepreneurs in Greece; and investment bankers in Financial America. It targets students and scholars from the social sciences and economics, and it has theoretical and practical implications.
Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future features in the following genres: Business innovation, Social and cultural anthropology, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups
Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future is available in Hardback
Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future was written by Joost Beuving and published by Berghahn Books
Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future has 232 pages
Yes it is part of Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy series
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