This article aims to re-conceptualize entrepreneurial creation in the context of New Public Management. While the latter has sought to ‘entrepreneurialize’ public sector employees by creating incentives for greater engagement in optimizing outcomes, the article departs from the premise that such an entrepreneurialization may more precisely be described as an ‘enterprising up’ of employees, placing strong emphasis on predefined outcomes and on eliminating the risk that input will not lead to the prescribed outcomes. Noting that this reasoning is fed by a prescriptive/retrospective logic, which tends to marginalize the openness of the ear-body, the article activates auditory concepts to (re)theorize entrepreneurial creation in the empirical context of a strong outcome focus. From ‘rhythm’, ‘composing’ and ‘crescendo’, entrepreneurial creation is theorized as a playful variation, which stays with process and allows the alterity of the other(ness) to resonate – and hence opens up a space for the qualitatively different to emerge. Hereby, the article seeks to contribute to a processual conceptualization of entrepreneurship as the creation of new in-betweens by providing (auditory) concepts that help us grasp this in-between as an emergent relational field of unactualized potential.

Velfærdsproblemer adresseres i stigende grad på tværs af sektorer ud fra ideen om, at nye løsninger skal samskabes i fællesskab med de mennesker, hvis liv de berører og gennem aktivering af eksisterende ressourcer i civilsamfundet. I artiklen undersøger forfatterne, hvordan et lokalt fællesskab konstitueres med afsæt i en case, hvor en gruppe borgere og en offentlig koordinator afprøver en digital platform som en måde at understøtte borgernes fællesskab. Analysen tager afsæt i social praksisteori og en relationel ontologi for derved flytte fokus til en procesorienteret forståelse af fællesskabelse, i hvilken det ’fælles’ kan ses som et fænomen, der kontinuerligt skabes og genskabes. Analysen peger på fælleskabelse som en proces, der konstitueres gennem sammenfletningen af handlinger, erfaringer og forestillinger i interaktion med spatiale, temporale og materielle elementer. Artiklen slutter med en diskussion af artiklens pointer i relation til offentlige aktører.

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To tell you about Penthesilea I should begin by describing the entrance to the city. You, no doubt, imagine seeing a girdle of walls rising from the dusty plain as you slowly approach the gate, guarded by customs men who are already casting oblique glances at your bundles. Until you have reached it you are outside it; you pass beneath an archway and you find yourself within the city. If this is what you believe you are wrong; Penthesilea is different. In this way, the traveller in Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities begins his tale of Penthesilea, one of the cities he describes for the old emperor Kublai Khan. Khan's power is in a state of decline, he fears his empire is falling apart, but in the traveller's descriptions, he seeks the lost order: 'One day when I know all the emblems', he asks the traveller, 'shall I be able to possess my empire, at last?' But the traveller answers. 'Sire, do not believe it. On that day you will be an emblem among emblems'. Still, the emperor asks the world to show itself as a mapped territory of land, resources, buildings, cities and so on; by knowing it all, he hopes to regain the power to possess and master it. However, Marco Polo, the Venetian traveller, does not bring back this overview; rather, he brings in the details, the unusual, the infinite, the dreamlike, that which is only half glimpsed from the

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