Abstrakti
In this paper, we examine the relationship between space and entrepreneurship, understood as organization-creation, by drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s spatial theorizing. Building on an ethnographic study of the Nordic Start-Up Incubator, we focus on the ongoing material, discursive, and affective reconfiguration of space to promote entrepreneurial ‘buzz’. We show how emancipatory promises (smoothings) are entangled with a logic of enterprise (striations), and how this ambiguity is enacted (folds) as organization-creation emerges spatially. This allows us to problematize the distinction often made between entrepreneurial spaces of emancipation and managerial spaces of control and to consider how they may co-constitute each other through subtle twists and turns. We conclude by discussing this multiplicity and ambiguity with regard to the politics of entrepreneurial spaces
Alkuperäiskieli | Englanti |
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Sivut | 523-544 |
Sivumäärä | 22 |
Julkaisu | Organization Studies |
Vuosikerta | 45 |
Numero | 4 |
Varhainen verkossa julkaisun päivämäärä | 5 helmik. 2024 |
DOI - pysyväislinkit | |
Tila | Julkaistu - huhtik. 2024 |
OKM-julkaisutyyppi | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä |