‘Behold, I am making all things new’: The entrepreneur as savior in the age of creativity

Dangerously empty? Hegemony and the construction of the Irish entrepreneur

“…Discourses of entrepreneurship can be differently constructed and mobilised depending on the political and social context (Armstrong, 2005;Nodoushani and Nodushani, 1999). The entrepreneur may be conceptualised as a quasi-religious figure (Sørensen, 2008), an agent of change and innovation (Calás et. al.…”

A CULTure of entrepreneurship education

“…Recent studies in entrepreneurship have highlighted parallels with religious concepts such as the myth of creation (Sørensen 2008). Ogbor (2000) shows how entrepreneurship theory constructs and promotes mythical figures -the deities -such as 'the warrior' (Gomez and Korine 2008) and 'the hero' (Dodd and Anderson 2007).…”

“…; implicitly establishing both the psychological traits of the entrepreneur and also of entrepreneurs as wealth creators and saviours of the economy (Sørensen 2008) and illustrating their commonality with the charismatic leaders or gurus of new religious movements (Robbins 1988). This establishes a figure or a deity that the student should aspire to become.…”

Information Systems Innovation Research: Between Novel Futures and Durable Presents

“…Here they discussed which activities and skills go into innovation (termed history-making), and emphasize how the existing is the point of departure that stimulates accumulation, reuse, and recombination. Thus they do not paint a traditional picture of a Aheroic innovator@ (Sørensen 2008) that identifies a problem or an unmet need and then produces an innovation to solve the problem or fill the need. Rather Spinosa et al describe practices of working with that which is already present in the situation, and how everyday practices contribute to Ahistorical disclosing@ through the practices they name: reconfiguration, cross-appropriation, and articulation.…”