Entrepreneurship as practice: systematic literature review of a nascent field

Next Generation External Venturing Practices in Family Owned Businesses

“…The next generation family members make it all fit together meaningfully by relating (or not) to the original FOB family and sometimes actualizing the original FOB. Therefore, a combination of practices in the routes illustrates simultaneous interconnectedness and autonomy of the next generation’s individuals to their families and the original FOB in the relational process that constitutes external venturing in EaP’s view (Champenois et al, 2019; Gartner et al, 2016; Steyaert, 2007; Watson, 2013). Table IV illustrates these three routes with exemplary quotes from three ventures (one venture per route, see pp.…”

“…For EaP research, this means a more detailed understanding of the actual practices, doings, and choices of individuals engaged in an important form of corporate entrepreneurship or external venturing (e.g., Anderson and Ronteau, 2017; Champenois et al, 2019). For instance, through an in‐depth longitudinal research and de Certeau’s conceptual notions, we offer an interpretation of how some venturing activities are performed in a joint constructive pursuit of opportunities and others as a form of subtle resistance to the accepted FOB setting’s dominant order.…”

“…EaP is a spin‐off of the practice turn in social sciences (Reckwitz, 2002; Schatzki, 2003; Schatzki et al, 2001) and is to some extent inspired by the strategy‐as‐practice literature within the strategy field (e.g., Jarzabkowski et al, 2007; Johnson et al, 2003; Vaara and Whittington, 2012; Whittington, 2006). EaP approaches focus on the practices that constitute the doings and choices of individuals involved in entrepreneurship (e.g., Champenois et al, 2019; Gartner et al, 2016; Hjorth, 2005; Johannisson, 2011; Steyaert, 2007; Steyaert and Katz, 2004; Tatli et al, 2014; Welter et al, 2017) and emphasize the lived experiences of individuals and their interactions as they employ various practices to engage in entrepreneurial activities (De Clercq and Voronov, 2009; Goss et al, 2011; Watson, 2013). EaP has gained increasing attention from scholars interested in micro‐level social interactions and context‐sensitive approaches for understanding how and why entrepreneurial activities take place (Chalmers and Shaw, 2017; De Clercq and Honig, 2011; Dey and Steyaert, 2016; Keating et al, 2014; Ramirez‐Pasillas et al, 2017).…”

Entrepreneurial learning as practice: a video-ethnographic analysis

“…Existing studies have primarily been concerned with either conceptually demarcating the difference from traditional ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies (Chiasson and Saunders, 2005;Sarason et al, 2006;Tatli et al, 2014). Champenois et al (2019) recently found in their review that most contributions adopt a critical perspective to rejuvenate thinking about traditional entrepreneurship phenomena, such as opportunity identification and exploitation, venturing and financing, networking and strategizing. While this is undoubtedly an important first step for the nascent field, there is a need to further a practice theory of entrepreneurial learning because knowledge and learning are central to the practical performances of organising and managing new ventures.…”

“…Similarly, recent work has investigated selling (Chalmers and Shaw, 2017), networking (Anderson et al, 2010) and marketing (Gross et al, 2014) practices to reveal the deeply contextual, processual and relational nature of these phenomena. Accordingly, entrepreneurship as practice, as a new research field (Champenois et al, 2019), posits that the study of entrepreneurship is only possible by explicating how entrepreneurial phenomena are actually lived in and through practices .…”