The entrepreneurial journey as an emergent hierarchical system of artifact-creating processes |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Management Programs, Florida Atlantic University, 313 Fleming Hall, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA;2. IZA, Bonn, Germany;3. Department of Economics, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3806, USA;1. Robert A. Foisie School of Business, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280, United States;2. Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, College of Business Administration, Kent State University, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242-0001, United States;1. IE Business School, Calle María de Molina, 11, 28006 Madrid, Spain;2. Lee Business School, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA;3. Law School, University of Minnesota, 412 Mondale Hall, 229 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;4. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 3-424 CarlSMgmt, 321 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;1. Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong;2. Institute of Management, Faculty of Economics, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland;3. EM Lyon, Ecully, France;1. Texas Christian University, Neeley School of Business, TCU Box 298530, Fort Worth, TX 76129, USA;2. Concordia University, John Molson School of Business , 1450 Guy St, Montreal, QC H3H 0A1, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Entrepreneurial ‘process’ perspectives explain the events of an entrepreneurial journey in terms of mechanisms, such as ‘effectual logic’, ‘bricolage’, ‘dynamic creation’, ‘opportunity tension’ and ‘enactment’. Process theorists, however, have not as yet developed an analytical framework that explains an entrepreneurial event in relation to the entrepreneurial journey as the unit of analysis. Building on Sarasvathy's (2003, 2008) and Venkataraman et al.'s (2012) conception of entrepreneurship inquiry as a ‘science of the artificial’ (Simon, 1996), we explain how this research gap can be addressed by conceptualizing the entrepreneurial journey as an ‘emergent hierarchical system of entrepreneurial artifact-creating processes’. From this perspective, entrepreneurial events can be explained in relation to the endogenous dynamics of prior patterns of artifact emergence. We discuss some research implications of focusing on artifact emergence as a key unit of analysis in process theory development. |
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