Faculty
Professor Daniel Hjorth, Associate Professor Bent Meier Sørensen, both CBS, Professor Chris Steyaert, University of St Gallen and Dr. Campbell Jones, University of Leicester

Course Coordinator
Professor Daniel Hjorth

The course objective is to establish familiarity with contemporary research in the field of organisational entrepreneurship, and to develop a framework for analysing the conditions of entrepreneurship in the context of (larger) formal/complex organisations. It includes review and critique of contributions to organisational entrepreneurship and its related fields of organisational creativity/innovation and corporate governance.

Emphasis is placed on PhD-students’ development of a framework and perspective, in which their separate research problem can be developed and made more precise.

The organisational entrepreneurship course takes as its context the recent developments towards a creative and experience-based economy. The general challenges of handling speed, flexibility and innovativeness, which presently organise most companies’ agendas, is one that pushed entrepreneurship into the main focus during the 1990s. For the post-industrial economy a central dilemma is how management – both its knowledge and its practice – that was developed for the industrial society can find a new role and function in companionship with organisational entrepreneurship. Management, the ‘visible hand’ of the industrial economy, seems often to squeeze out the creative potential from innovation processes: the historically suggested continuity of managerial knowledge and practice needs to be critically/creatively reflected upon. Which are the new demands, conditions, possibilities, forces, rules, knowledges etc. for the post-industrial economy and how do these relate to developments in entrepreneurship research, organisation studies and management? This course seeks to move into this dilemma and create knowledge through struggling with its various issues.

Lecture plan

Time/period	Faculty	Title
Monday 29 September
10:00-10:30		Introduction
10:30-11:15	Daniel Hjorth, Chris Steyaert and Bent Meier Sørensen	Establishing the field of organisational entrepreneurship
11:15-12:00		Critique and its function for establishing a field: - being against 'that' and being for 'this' - 'critique noveau'
12:00-13:00		Lunch
13:00-14:30		Presentation of PhD projects
14:30-16:30		Exercise 1: Critique - the role of critique for establishing a field
14:30-15:30	Work in small groups	What is critique; how to use it; what can we accomplish with critique
15:30-16:30		Presentation and plenary discussion
Thuesday 30 September
09:15-12:00		Exercise 2: Art - the role of art for and in organisational entrepreneurship
09:15-10:15	Work in small groups	Is there an art for management/organisation/entrepreneurship?; how to use it; whtat can we accomplish with it?
10:15-11:00		Presentation and plenary discussion
11:00-12:00	Chris Steyaert	Amarican Psycho - European Schizo
12:00-13:00		Lunch
13:00-16:00		Exercise 3: Governing - the role of control and discipline in organisations
13:00-13:45	Daniel Hjorth	Managerialism and orgaisational space for play
14:00-15:00	Work in small groups	What is government/control/discipline; what does the relationships to entrepreneurship look like
15:15-16:00		Presentation and plenary discussion
17.30-		Pub + Dinner with staff and students (not included in the course fee)
Wednesday 1 October
09:15-12:15		Exercise 4: Event - creativity in an ensemble of established order
09:15-10:15	Bent Meier Sørensen	A philosophy of the event
10:15-11:30	Work in small groups	what is process/event; what does process philosophy do for organisational entrepreneurship
11:30-12:15		Presentation and plenary discussion
12:15-13:15		Lunch
13:15-14:15	Campbell Jones	Problematising entrepreneurship
14:15-15:15		Method challenges in studies of the entrepreneurial event
14:15-14:45		In the field
14:45-15:15		At the desk
15:15-16:30		Implications for PhD-projects
		Evaluation discussion

The teaching style of the seminar is a combination of lectures and discussions with the invited professors, who will join for several days of the course, creating a kind of “summer-school”.

There is no examination.

du Gay, P. (1994) ” Making up Managers: Bureaucracy, Enterprise and the Liberal Art of Separation”, British Journal of Sociology, 45(4): 655-674

Hjorth, D. 2003 Rewriting Entrepreneurship – For a New Perspective on Organisational Creativity, Copenhagen/Malmö/Oslo: CBS Press/Liber/Abstrakt

Hjorth, D. (2005) “Organizational Entrepreneurship: with de Certeau on Creating Heterotopias (or spaces for play)”, Journal of Management Inquiry, 14, No. 4, 386-398

Hjorth, D. and Steyaert, C. (2006) “American Psycho – European Schizo: Stories of Managerial Elites in ‘hundred’ images”, in Gagliardi, P. and Czarniawska, B. (eds.) Management Education and Humanities. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar., pp. 67-97

Hjorth, D. and Pelzer, P. (2007) “The Fate of Phaeton: Baroque Art for Management’s Sake?”, Organization, 14(6): pp. 869-886

Guillet de Monthoux, P. (2009) ‘Opening the Gates to the Art Firm – The Christos as entrepreneurs’, in Hjorth, D. and Steyaert, C. (eds.)The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Jones, C. and Spicer, A. (2005) “The Sublime Object of Entrepreneurship”, Organization, 12(2): 223-246

Jones, C. and Spicer, A. (forthcoming) Unmasking the Entrepreneur. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Parker, M. (1995) “Critique in the Name of What? Postmodernism and Critical Approaches to Organization”, Organization Studies, 16(4): 553-564

Steyaert, C. (2007) ”’Entrepreneuring’ as a conceptual attractor? A review of process theories in 20 years of entrepreneurship studies. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 19(6): 453-477

Sørensen, Bent Meier (2006) ‘Identity Sniping: Innovation, Imagination and the Body’ in Creativity and Innovation Management, 15(2)

Sørensen, Bent Meier (2008) ‘Behold, I am making all things new’: The Entrepreneur as Saviour in the Age of Creativity’ in Scandinavian Journal of Management: Special Issue: Recontextualising / Recreating Entrepreneurship, 24(2), 85-93.

Send your application before 29 August,2008 to Anja Dupont ( ad.lpf@cbs.dk).

This course is developed with support from the Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy.