Fuller, Ted, Warren, Lorraine and Welter, Friederike
(2008)
An emergence perspective on entrepreneurship: processes, structure and methodology.
In: Fourth Organizational Studies Workshop, University of Southampton.
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Abstract
This paper explores entrepreneurship from the perspective of emergence, drawing on literature in
complexity theory, social theory and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is conceptualised as the
production of emergence, or emergent properties, via a simple model of initial conditions, processes of
emergence that produces emergent properties at multiple levels (new phenomena such as products,
services, firms, networks, patterns of behaviour, identities). Conceptualisation through emergence thus
embraces actors, context, processes and (structural) outcomes. This paper builds on previous work that
theorises the relationship between entrepreneurship and social change. We extend that work by
considering the methodological implications of relating processes of entrepreneurship to the emergence
of new phenomena.
| Additional Information: | This paper explores entrepreneurship from the perspective of emergence, drawing on literature in
complexity theory, social theory and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is conceptualised as the
production of emergence, or emergent properties, via a simple model of initial conditions, processes of
emergence that produces emergent properties at multiple levels (new phenomena such as products,
services, firms, networks, patterns of behaviour, identities). Conceptualisation through emergence thus
embraces actors, context, processes and (structural) outcomes. This paper builds on previous work that
theorises the relationship between entrepreneurship and social change. We extend that work by
considering the methodological implications of relating processes of entrepreneurship to the emergence
of new phenomena. |
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| Keywords: | emergence, entrepreneurship theory, processes of emergence, methodology |
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| Subjects: | N Business and Administrative studies > N100 Business studies
N Business and Administrative studies > N200 Management studies |
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| Divisions: | Lincoln International Business School |
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| ID Code: | 2745 |
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| Deposited On: | 30 Jun 2010 13:37 |
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