Abstract
Based on fictional and non-fictional accounts, this chapter offers a narrative study of entrepreneurship in which the transgressive force of what Joseph Schumpeter calls ‘creative destruction’ is traced through the production of luxury objects emerging from the Meissen porcelain works. It is a narrative in which luxury and entrepreneurship are brought together, somewhat uneasily, under the forces of obsession, addiction, expertise, collecting, the affective power of things and civility.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business |
Publisher | Oxford: Oxford University Press |
Pages | 107-124 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190932220 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Affect theory
- Creativity
- Entrepreneurship
- Experiment
- Fiction
- Luxury
- New materialism
- Obsession
- Porcelain
- Schumpeter