The politics and aesthetics of entrepreneurship: A fourth movements in entrepreneurship / edited by Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert.
Contributor(s): Hjorth, Daniel [editor]
| Steyaert, Chris [editor].
Material type: 
BookSeries: Movements in entrepreneurship: Publisher: Cheltenham ; Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010Copyright date: ©2009Description: x, 277 pages : illustrations, graphs ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849801638 (paperback).Subject(s): EntrepreneurshipDDC classification: 338.04 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 338.04 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00218686 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This fourth book in the New Movements in Entrepreneurship series focuses on the politics and aesthetics of entrepreneurial processes, in order to shed light on entrepreneurial creation itself.
Presenting original empirical material, the eminent contributors examine control and entrepreneurship in various organizational contexts. They go on to demonstrate how control can be exercised entrepreneurially, how art brings an entrepreneurial force into society, and how entrepreneurship operates by aesthetic moves. The need to move beyond the traditional focus on the economic and business implications of entrepreneurship is also discussed, as is the relevance of political and aesthetic theory to our understanding of entrepreneurship as a creative force.
The book provides entrepreneurship studies with a new language, that in itself is an aesthetic effort with political implications, resulting in new theoretical, empirical and practical possibilities. It will prove a fascinating read for students, academics and researchers with an interest in entrepreneurship and management and creativity and aesthetics.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-265) and index.
Entrepreneurship as disruptive event -- Part one: Entrepreneurial policies -- Freedom, opportunism and entrepreneurialism in post-bureaucratic organizations -- Fostering a regional innovation system - looking into the power of policy-making -- Government entrepreneurship and the arts: the politics of the National Endowment for the Arts -- Part two: Entrepreneurial places -- Opening the gates to the Art Firm: the Christos as entrepreneurs -- Spaces of intensity - urban entrepreneurship as redistribution of the sensible - Rekindling the entrepreneurial potential of family business - a radical (old-fashioned) feminist proposal -- Part three: Entrepreneurial identities -- Is the Marquis de Sade an entrepreneur? -- Playing the fool? An aesthetic performance of an entrepreneurial identity -- Stigmatization and self-presentation in Australian entrepreneurial identity formation -- Part four: Entrepreneurial images -- Metamorphoses in entrepreneurship studies : towards an affirmative politics of entrepreneuring -- The entrepreneurial utopia: Miss Black Rose and the Holy Communion -- Moving entrepreneurship: an incipiency.