Question

enterprenuership in actions...tell us about us.

Answer 1

There is increasing recognition that entrepreneurship research needs to a better balance between studying to entrepreneurial activities and setting these activities in their wider context. It is important that these good intentions are realized and one way of doing this is to bring together ethnographic research with concepts from sociology and from pragmatist thinking. In this study, field research material is interwoven with a set of key concepts to ensure that balanced attention is paid to issues at the levels of the enterprising individual, the organization and societal institutions. The field research is innovative in combining depth study of several enterprises and their founders with the analysis of broader aspects of ‘entrepreneurship in society’. It achieves this through a process of ‘everyday ethnographic’ observation, reading, conversation and ongoing analysis. In the spirit of a pragmatist conception of social science, the underlying logic of entrepreneurial action is identified. This is a logic which needs to be appreciated by all of those who wish to understand and/or engage with the entrepreneurial dimension of contemporary social and economic life.On the other hand, entrepreneurial actions are actions that will have some entrepreneurial activities. For example, starting a business, investing in something, expanding the business, improving the business, marketing products or service. All of these are different types of entrepreneurial activities.All entrepreneurial action taking processes are composed of two steps.First step: Deciding to take an entrepreneurial action.Second step: Implementation of the decision that you have made in a previous step related to the specific action.When you already know what you need to do, you will also know all other necessary steps for particular entrepreneurial action.However this subprocess can quickly become a reason for the failure of the whole action taking process. If you don’t implement the decision, there will not be an entrepreneurial action.If you have enough experience with the specific entrepreneurial activities and actions related, you’ll be more able to take those actions. Otherwise, when you don’t have enough experience, you will feel like someone still unprepared for that type of actions. In such a way you will delay implementing the action.There is increasing recognition that entrepreneurship research needs to achieve a better balance between studying to entrepreneurial activities and setting these activities in their wider context. It is important that these good intentions are realized and one way of doing this is to bring together ethnographic research with concepts from sociology and from pragmatist thinking. In this study, field research material is interwoven with a set of key concepts to ensure that balanced attention is paid to issues at the levels of the enterprising individual, the organization and societal institutions. The field research is innovative in combining depth study of several enterprises and their founders with the analysis of broader aspects of ‘entrepreneurship in society’. It achieves this through a process of ‘everyday ethnographic’ observation, reading, conversation and ongoing analysis. In the spirit of a pragmatist conception of social science, the underlying logic of entrepreneurial action is identified. This is a logic which needs to be appreciated by all of those who wish to understand and/or engage with the entrepreneurial dimension of contemporary social and economic life.