The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship (New Movements in Entrepreneurship)

288 Pages·2009·5.32 MB·English

by  Daniel Hjorth

The Politics and Aesthetics of
Entrepreneurship
MOVEMENTS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Edited by Chris Steyaert and Daniel Hjorth
New Movements in Entrepreneurship (2003)
Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship: A Second
Movements in Entrepreneurship Book (2004)
Entrepreneurship as Social Change: A Third Movements in
Entrepreneurship Book (2006)
The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship: A Fourth Movements in
Entrepreneurship Book (2009)
The Politics and
Aesthetics of
Entrepreneurship
A Fourth Movements in
Entrepreneurship Book
Edited by
Daniel Hjorth
Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration and
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management,
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
and
Chris Steyaert
Doctor in Psychology and Professor in Organizational
Psychology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
In association with ESBRI
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK (cid:129) Northampton, MA, USA
© Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert 2009
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2008939747
ISBN 978 1 84720 574 2
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Contents
List of fi gures and tables vii
List of contributors viii
Foreword and acknowledgements ix
1. Entrepreneurship as disruptive event 1
Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert
PART ONE: ENTREPRENEURIAL POLICIES
2. Freedom, opportunism and entrepreneurialism in
post-bureaucratic organizations 13
Christian Maravelias
3. Fostering a regional innovation system – looking into the
power of policy-making 31
Caroline Wigren and Leif Melin
4. Government entrepreneurship and the arts: the politics of the
National Endowment for the Arts 55
Lauretta Conklin Frederking
PART TWO: ENTREPRENEURIAL PLACES
5. Opening the gates to the Art Firm: the Christos as
entrepreneurs 75
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
6. Spaces of intensity – urban entrepreneurship as redistribution
of the sensible 92
Timon Beyes
7. Rekindling the entrepreneurial potential of family business –
a radical (old-fashioned) feminist proposal 113
Kathryn Campbell
PART THREE: ENTREPRENEURIAL IDENTITIES
8. Is the Marquis de Sade an entrepreneur? 131
Campbell Jones and André Spicer
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9. Playing the fool? An aesthetic performance of an
entrepreneurial identity 148
Lorraine Warren and Alistair Anderson
10. Stigmatization and self-presentation in Australian
entrepreneurial identity formation 162
James Reveley and Simon Down
PART FOUR: ENTREPRENEURIAL IMAGES
11. Metamorphoses in entrepreneurship studies: towards an
affirmative politics of entrepreneuring 183
Richard Weiskopf and Chris Steyaert
12. The entrepreneurial utopia: Miss Black Rose and the Holy
Communion 202
Bent M. Sørensen
13. Moving entrepreneurship: an incipiency 221
Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert
Notes 231
References 234
Index 267
Figures and tables
FIGURES
4.1 NEA federal appropriations, 1966–1998 61
4.2 Number of states receiving individual visual arts grants,
1967–1995 62
4.3 Expansion and restriction bills for the NEA, 1970–1995 68
5.1 The Art Firm model 78
5.2 A Gates guide introducing the art in Central Park,
photograph by Pierre Guillet de Monthoux 80
5.3 Strolling under the saffron Gates, photograph by
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux 81
6.1 The Palast der Republik in February of 2006, shortly
before its demolition, photograph by David Baltzer 93
6.2 ‘Fassadenstadt’ installation inside the Palast (2004),
photograph by David Baltzer 105
6.3 ‘Zweifel’ (2005), photograph by David Baltzer 106
6.4 ‘Der Berg’ installation inside the Palast (2005),
photograph by David Baltzer 109
12.1 Miss Black Rose, photograph by Jessica Frank 210
13.1 Movements in entrepreneurship 229
TABLES
4.1 Percentage of local arts agencies (sample of 50) involved
in community development issues 64
4.2 Percentage of local arts agencies (sample of 50) involved
in collaboration and partnerships 65
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Contributors
Alistair Anderson, Aberdeen Business School, [email protected]
Timon Beyes, University of St Gallen, [email protected]
Kathryn Campbell, Trent University, [email protected]
Simon Down, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, simon.down@newcas-
tle.ac.uk
Lauretta Conklin Frederking, The University of Portland, frederki@
up.edu
William B. Gartner, Clemson University, [email protected]
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Stockholm University, [email protected]
Daniel Hjorth, Copenhagen Business School, [email protected]
Campbell Jones, Copenhagen Business School, [email protected]
Christian Maravelias, Stockholm University, christian.maravelias@fek.
su.se
Leif Melin, Jönköping International Business School, leif.melin@ihh.
hj.se
James Reveley, University of Wollongong, [email protected]
Bent M. Sørensen, Copenhagen Business School, [email protected]
André Spicer, University of Warwick, [email protected]
Chris Steyaert, University of St Gallen, [email protected]
Lorraine Warren, University of Southampton, [email protected]
Richard Weiskopf, University of Innsbruck, [email protected]
Caroline Wigren, CIRCLE, Lund University, [email protected]
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Foreword and acknowledgements
If one were to have second thoughts about Iceland as the choice for the loca-
tion of our fourth Movements Workshop, it would be that it was a bit too
obvious a place for the theme of fi re, not least as we were based in Bifröst
Business School, located in the middle of a lava fi eld in the Norðurárdalur
valley. But as is often the case with fi re, you quickly get fascinated by how
it potentializes the air, how it transforms the earth and how it is contained
by water and ice. We must say that the beauty of the place and the smooth
efficiency of the local organizers left a fi rm conviction in our minds that we
have to, some day soon, re-visit. Our special and cordial thanks go to the
local organizing committee, headed by Rögnvaldur Jóhann Sæmundson
and Kristin Hulda Sverrisdóttir, both at Reykjavik University. They
truly made us feel home in Iceland and provided a perfect introduction to
an exotic and warm culture. We were lucky to visit Reykjavik during its
yearly Arts Festival so that the many exhibitions could inspire our discus-
sion on aesthetics, politics and entreperneurship. Together with Magnus
Aronsson and the team at ESBRI (Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Research Institute, Stockholm) that hosted the conference in collaboration
with Reykjavik University, the fourth Movements Workshop provided the
fertile beginnings of this book.
The workshop, like the book, was a performative event. Our invited
plenary speakers – Paul du Gay (Open University, Milton Keynes) and
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux (Stockholm University) contributed with
distinct political and aesthetic perspectives on entrepreneurship and
made the workshop into an event that moved ideas and bodies, energized
like fi re. In addition, Jerome Katz provided most insightful feedback on
several presentations and aided in this way the emergence of this book.
More than in previous workshops (2001, 2002 and 2004) the theme of
politics and aesthetics challenges researchers to take stances on issues
and agree between themselves on how to relate to novel approaches to
and take on critical perspectives on entrepreneurship. The political and
the aesthetic (of course not neatly separable as may be implied) clearly
engaged the whole person. People reacted and discussed, provoked and
became provoked, experienced and sensed. Hopefully we have been able
to keep some of this life in the book as it evolved. With regard to the
fi nal stage of this book’s production, a very special thanks goes to Lena
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