It's entrepreneurship, not enterprise: Ai Weiwei as entrepreneur: Ai Weiwei as entrepreneur

Daniel Hjorth; Robin Holt

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2016.03.001

It's entrepreneurship, not enterprise: Ai Weiwei as entrepreneur: Ai Weiwei as entrepreneur

Daniel Hjorth, Robin Holt^*

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School of Management - Business School

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Abstract

We challenge the obvious and easy association of enterprise and entrepreneurship. We do so by arguing that entrepreneurship is inherently social and collective, something that is concealed when held up as example of enterprising behaviour. We use as an illustrative case the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, an example of entrepreneurship that has little to do with commerce and everything to do with the social nature of creativity. We conclude by equating entrepreneurship to generosity: a social production of possibility from which all opportunities and ventures emerge.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	50-54
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Business Venturing Insights
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2016.03.001
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2016

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Creativity
Enterprise
Social entrepreneurship

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