From dust to buzz: Reconfiguring space for organization-creation
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2024-04
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en
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22
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Organization Studies
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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 spacesDescription
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Deleuze and Guattari, entrepreneurship, ethnography, organization-creation, space, diversity, equality and inclusion
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Kuismin, A, Wickström, A, Hietanen, J & Katila, S 2024, ' From dust to buzz: Reconfiguring space for organization-creation ', Organization Studies, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 523-544 . https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231225041