My focus is on entrepreneurship as forms of organisational creativity. The possibly creative tension between management and entrepreneurship (as forms of knowledge, as philosophies for organising, and as practices) thereby becomes central. The historically and philosophically grounded management knowledge and management practice and its relationship to organisational creativity opens up a series of research questions regarding control, passion, economic efficiency, art/aesthetics, organisation, fantasy, and so on. Also the researcher as author/writer and communicator of research is included in my interest in the relationship between creation and control. How is the ’scientific text’ authored? How are ’scientific results’ presented?These practices are also included in a continuous work of re-inventing research practices and thinking. Developing a new language of research would therefore be of great importance.

Member of editorial boards:
Organization (SAGE), Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (Taylor & Francis), Education, Knowledge & Economy (Taylor & Francis), International Small Business Journal, International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (Inderscience Publishers), Open Management Journal (Bentham Publishers) 

Books

 

Articles

Hjorth, D. (2010) “On Provocation, Education and Entrepreneurship”, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 23(1-2): 49-63

Hjorth, D. and Johannisson, B. (2008) “Building New Roads for Entrepreneurship Research to Travel by: On the Work of Professor William B. Gartner”, Small Business Economics, 31(4): 341-350.

Hjorth, D. (2008) editorial: “Recontextualizing/Recreating Entrepreneurship”, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 24(2): 81-84. (With Campbell Jones and William E. Gartbner).

Hjorth, D. (2008) “Nordic Entrepreneurship Research”, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, 32(2): 313-338.