Entrepreneurship as a Collective Phenomenon
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Although there is an increasing consensus within the research community that entrepreneurship should be perceived as an organising process involving many, little attention has been paid to the genuinely collective features of entrepreneurship. Here entrepreneurship is presented as a phenomenon that is as much the outcome of a joint effort as an individual endeavour. Different images of collective entrepreneurship are introduced and categorised. Theoretical implications include reconsideration of what unit of analysis to focus when researching entrepreneurship. The conclusive lesson for practitioners is that measures should encourage self-organising of entrepreneurial activity by supporting contexts and networking rather than individual ventures. A Tale of Two Twin and Contrasting Organisations At the advent of those times that were to make Sweden into an important IT nation, two firms were born the same year with the same vision: to provide small businesses with inexpensive administrative software. The two firms both over the years grew to successful medium-sized business and at the beginning of the new millennium they both organised about 400 people. 1 An earlier version of this paper was presented at RENT XII, Lyon, France. 26-27 November l998.
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