The role of the entrepreneurial encounter in the emergence of opportunities: Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club

Entrepreneurship and the struggle over order and coherence: a thematic reading of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities

“…Against this backdrop, we prompt further engagement with discipline-spanning literary works, like The Man Without Qualities. While we acknowledge the increasing interest in literary analyses within the field of entrepreneurship and MOS (e.g., Johnsen and Sørensen 2017;Steyaert 2007b), we note that most studies refer to literature and fiction to exemplify or alternatively represent entrepreneurial and organisational phenomena (Duymedjian et al 2019).…”

“…Taken together, what all movements of this tradition share, is a greater interest in the becoming of entrepreneurship than its 'being' (Duymedjian et al 2019). Hence, they approach entrepreneurship as a continuously emerging, socially-mediated process of creation, modification, and transformation of prevailing (entrepreneurial) norms and orders (Rindova et al 2009).…”