Spacing entrepreneurship: The case of management education

Endrissat, Nada; Dey, Pascal; Hjorth, Daniel (6 February 2024). Spacing entrepreneurship: The case of management education In: ESCP Research Workshop. Paris, France. 6.2.2024.

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Despite the fact that organization and management sciences have taken a “turn to space”, surprisingly little attention has been paid to how space matters in learning and education. Building on contemporary organizational scholarship that shows how space enchants novices into professional values and linking it, conceptually, with research on liminality, this paper aims to theorize how aspiring entrepreneurs learn in and through space. Empirical vignettes from an alternative entrepreneurship school in Europe serve to illustrate our arguments and show how ‘becoming entrepreneur’, and the associated cultivation of a sense of possibility and future-making, is constituted in and through liminal spaces. Different from dominant spaces that help to socialize newcomers into a codified set of knowledge and a professional ethos, liminal space strikes a chord with the recent trend towards exploration and disruption rather than reliance on formal qualifications. We close by highlighting how space makes a difference for entrepeneurship and business school education more generally.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Division/Institute:	Business School > Institute for Innovation and Strategic Entrepreneurship Business School > Institute for Innovation and Strategic Entrepreneurship > Low-end Innovation Business School
Name:	Endrissat, Nada0000-0002-4758-8441; Dey, Pascal0000-0003-2792-0061 and Hjorth, Daniel
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Language:	English
Submitter:	Pascal Dey
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2024 15:24
Last Modified:	20 Aug 2024 15:24
Related URLs:	Organisation
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.22184
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/22184