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Hi.

If you are interested in entrepreneurial narrative, please consider
submitting an abstract for the ICSB 2007 Track on "Celebrating
Curiousity."

The Call for papers is listed below. Please note the next to the last
paragraph that describes a special session that focuses on the book "The
Republic of Tea." I expect to publish an edited book of papers presented
at this session. If you have any questions, please email me:
gartner@clemson.edu

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Call for papers
ICSB 2007 track

Celebrating Curiosity: narrative, literary and imaginative approaches
of entrepreneurship (a track in honour of Bengt Johannisson)

A track organised by:
William B. Gartner, Clemson University, USA (gartner@clemson.edu)
Daniel Hjorth, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (dhj.lpf@cbs.dk)
Chris Steyaert, St Gallen University, Switzerland (chris.steyaert@unisg.ch)



Celebrating curiosity
This track takes its inspiration from the life and research of Professor
Bengt Johannisson who retires at the end of 2007. Johannisson’s research
is characterised by curiosity, experimentation and imagination. His life
as an entrepreneurship researcher – which many of us have experienced – is
a life characterised by spontaneity, immediacy, passion, and engagement in
issues and people. We see his contribution – connecting research and life
– as an important inspiration to novel entrepreneurship research.

We have emphasised in the miniseries ‘Movements in Entrepreneurship’ books
(Steyaert and Hjorth, 2003; Hjorth and Steyaert, 2004; Steyaert and
Hjorth, 2006) that we should keep looking at the movements. By this we
have meant several things: 1) Entrepreneurship should keep its adolescent
spirit of experimentation and creation, one that was central to early
scholars witnessing of their experiences from entering into this field of
research; 2) We have argued for focusing on the process of entrepreneuring
rather than the end-result (entrepreneurship); 3) We have discussed and
exemplified how entrepreneurship can be studied as a process, using
narrative and discursive approaches; 4) and we have shown how
entrepreneurship is a societal force belonging primarily to society and
not simply economy, and that – as such – entrepreneurship carries
important (ethical and political) implications for everyone. This
ICSB2007-track wants to continue this movement and invite contributions
that:

• develop processual perspectives in entrepreneurship,
• use narrative forms of knowledge and analyses to study entrepreneurial
processes
• make use of literary images, stories, styles, myths, metaphors…to tell
and analyse entrepreneurship stories
• explore the self-reflective nature of entrepreneurship through analyses
of published autobiographies in books
• develop critical accounts of dominant discourses of entrepreneurship in
science and society
• explore entrepreneurial subjectivity and agency through narrative and
discurse theoretical frameworks
• reflect upon practices and styles of entrepreneurship research informed
by narrative and literary approaches
• conceptualize and theorize entrepreneurship as a science of imagination
and as an art of curiosity
• review the ways entrepreneurship scholars have dealt with the narrative
and literary turn in the social sciences



In the spirit of a ‘Festschrift’, celebrating the significance of an
academic career, we call especially for papers that highlight and extend
the many inspirations and potential interpretations that the research of
Bengt Johannisson has brought and can continue to bring to the field of
entrepreneurship. We welcome papers that imagine new forms and styles of
entrepreneurship research which suggest enacting entrepreneurial
scholarship as a style (of researching) that combines curiosity and
engagement, imagination and irony, playfulness and critique, reflection
and performativity.


Furthermore, we would like to invite contributions that explore
entrepreneurial autobiographies that focus on the process of emergence and
creation. A book of notes that reflects this emphasis is The Republic of
Tea, Letters to a Young Zentrepeneur by Mel Ziegler, Bill Rosenzweig and
Patricia Ziegler, New York: Currency Double-Day, 1992. We anticipate a
small group of scholars interpreting these traces of “emerging data” in
all its richness, drawing upon narrative, literary and discursive forms of
analysis. Please contact William B. Gartner (email: gartner@clemson.edu)
if you are interested in pursuing this topic.

Also other authors interested in this track are encouraged to contact one
of the track chairs to develop their paper ideas.

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William B. Gartner
Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership
Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership
345 Sirrine Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-1345
Phone: 864-656-0825
Fax: 864-656-7237
Email: gartner@clemson.edu

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