1st Edition

Entrepreneurship and the Creation of Organization

By Daniel Hjorth, Robin Holt Copyright 2022
264 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

When re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship in this book, the authors have come to the conclusion that the concept that describes it most precisely is one that signifies a process that includes imagining, seductively describing, playfully organizing, political agility in navigating common sense, and business sensibility before possible commerce. This book develops a process... Read more

Part I 1. Romanticism and wonder 2. Resonance, Individuality and the Entrepreneur 3. Assemblage and Desire 4. Entrepreneurship as Organization Creation Part II 5. Organization Creation I: Seduction - Wolfgang Mozart and Søren Kierkegaard’s Don Giovanni & William Shakespeare’s Iago 6. Organization Creation II: Play - Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway & Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking 7. Organization Creation III: Common Sense - Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennett & Nicoli Gogol’s Chichikov 8. Organization Creation IV: Commerce - Maurice Stendhal’s Julien Sorel & Patricia Highsmith’s Thomas Ripley Part III 9. Entrepreneurship as Fabrication

Biography

Daniel Hjorth is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organisation at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Professor at Nottingham Business School, the UK.

Robin Holt is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organisation at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.