Entrepreneurship as in(ter)vention: Reconsidering the conceptual politics of method in entrepreneurship studies

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-88

  Steyaert, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Enactment; Experimentation; Intervention; Invention; Methodology; Performance

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; EDUCATION; ENTREPRENEUR; ESTHETICS; METHODOLOGY; POLITICAL RELATIONS; RESEARCH;

EID: 79951559959     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: 14645114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2011.540416     Document Type: Article

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