<p>"Governments and business practitioners must think afresh about their place in the world. The old ways of doing business are no longer credible. This book will help you to think about yourself and your business in a totally new way. It opens for you the world of phenomenology. It is not about helping you to do things better, it is about helping you to think about your place amongst those the things you are doing." –<i>Robert Shaw, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou</i></p>

This book proposes that entrepreneurial practice is often considered an "applicable" paradigm. An "applicable" paradigm - which focus too much on planned, analytical, calculable, tool-based and ready-to-hand modes of decision making action. Hence, the equally important "theory of Nothing" has not received the attention it deserves. With reference to Heidegger’s existence oriented philosophy, Heidegger and Entrepreneurship: A Phenomenological Approach indicates how nothing can be a condition for an entrepreneurial applicable paradigm. It is suggested that the "theory of Nothing" bears the possibility of further development and can re-create the entrepreneurial paradigm of applying and decision making. This may also indicate a structure for understanding the new possibilities in entrepreneurship practice, such as entrepreneurial education and research. The book will be of value to students, researchers, and academics with an interest in entrepreneurship, management, and innovation.
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With reference to Heidegger’s existence oriented philosophy, this book indicates how nothing can be a condition for an entrepreneurial applicable paradigm.
1. Introduction1.1 How to respond to Nothing?1.2. Heidegger and entrepreneurial oriented literaturePart 1 Three assumptions of entrepreneurial theory and the potential of Nothing entrepreneurial theory 2. Why assumptions in entrepreneurial theory do not work for explaining phenomena of Nothing 2.1 Becoming versus Being2.2 Decision making versus being-there/dwelling2.3 Activity versus passivity Part 2 Towards a Theory of "Nothing" in entrepreneurial practice3 Introduction on Heidegger and philosophy of Being and Nothing 3.1 Being-there, being-in-the-world, 3.2 Being-in-the-World as technology and enframing3.3 Narrowing the scope: on Theory of Nothing3.4 Nothingness and the experience of ‘Nothing’3.5 "The dwelling place" as ethical construct and perception of time4. Vignettes and examples 4.1 Technology and the applicable paradigm4.2 Angst and nothing in entrepreneurial life5. Outlining a model of nothing modes5.1 Surfacing nothing5.2 Embedding nothing5.3 Sharing nothing 5.4 Inducing nothingPart 3 Implications of A Theory of Nothing6 Implications 6.1 Implications for entrepreneurial research6.2 Implications for entrepreneurial theory6.3 Implications for entrepreneurial education7 Conclusion: Nothing as the nascent and revitalizing entrepreneurship
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"Governments and business practitioners must think afresh about their place in the world. The old ways of doing business are no longer credible. This book will help you to think about yourself and your business in a totally new way. It opens for you the world of phenomenology. It is not about helping you to do things better, it is about helping you to think about your place amongst those the things you are doing." –Robert Shaw, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou
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ISBN
9781032241777
Publisert
2021-12-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
145 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
114

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Håvard Åsvoll is Associate Professor of Organization and Management at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Nord University, Norway.