Advancing Strategic Entrepreneurship Research: The Role of Complexity Science in Shifting the Paradigm

Minet Schindehutte and Michael H. Morris

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2009, vol. 33, issue 1, 241-276

Abstract: Five areas are identified wherein more development might enhance the current model of strategic entrepreneurship (SE): exploration–exploitation, opportunity, newness, micro–macro interaction, and dynamics. Complexity science is presented as an alternative theoretical lens for addressing these issues, and enhancing the potential of SE in a world characterized by fluctuations, irreversibility, nonlinearity, and instabilities. Using this lens, a rearticulation of SE is proposed that centers on the notion of an opportunity space and a paradigm built around forms, flows, and functions. SE's domain consists of a complex set of phenomena that cannot be neatly bundled according to disciplinary boundaries.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2008.00288.x

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