Why not take a performative approach to entrepreneurship?

Journal of Business Venturing Insights

Volumn 9, Issue , 2018, Pages 60-64

  Garud, Raghu ^a   Gehman, Joel ^b   Giuliani, Antonio Paco ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c IESEG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Contextualization; Metatheory; Performativity; Relationality; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042136488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23526734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2018.01.001     Document Type: Article

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