Towards an Object-Oriented Organization Theory: The Role of Entrepreneurial Objects in Organizational Emergence

Avant-garde entrepreneurship studies have contributed to organization theory through a strong process ontology on the creation of new potentialities for organizing; however, this has also further diminished scholarly attention organizations as objects. It follows that core entities theory—real organizations—matter very little theorizing organizational emergence. Based Graham Harman’s object-oriented (OOO), we develop argument objects, not unlike processes, can be entrepreneurial. Laying ground an (OOOT), posit increased viewing quality invites into weird reality emergent autonomy-seeking This becomes possible by way non-literal knowledge sustained commitment another object is neither reduceable its components (including itself) nor actions all forms relational determination organizations). We close discussing uniqueness OOOT example Sun Ra and Arkestra.