Chapter 9: The artifacts of entrepreneurial practice
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Chapter
Published:
08 Apr 2022
Page Range:
168–186
Collection:
Business 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976831.00017
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship, Design, Artifacts, Materiality, Epistemic objects, Assemblages
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In this chapter we set out to complement the entrepreneurship as practice perspective by proposing a conceptualization of its central artifacts, such as business models, pitches, and prototypes. Having defined as entrepreneurial those artifacts that serve to instantiate an abstract opportunity in a way that supports its further development, we discuss entrepreneurial artifacts in terms of three broad categories: abstract, material, and narrative. Thereafter we point to some themes for further development before concluding with implications for the practice (and practice theory) of entrepreneurship.

Cover Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice
Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice
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Published:
08 Apr 2022
Print ISBN:
9781788976824
eISBN:
9781788976831
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976831
Pages:
368
Collection:
Business 2022
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