Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures

Morten Tinning

Business History, 2024, vol. 66, issue 2, 386-406

Abstract: Entrepreneurship is often understood as an individualistic endeavour. This article investigates how cultural communities shape entrepreneurial activity through the process of envisioning competing imagined futures. By deploying a microhistorical approach, it explores a public debate about the transition from sail to steam in a late nineteenth-century Danish maritime community. In the debate, local actors evaluated and negotiated future entrepreneurial actions as embedded in existing norms, interpretations of the past, and socio-technical systems rather than independent, non-conformist ventures. The article demonstrates the potential role of community when we attempt to understand better how entrepreneurs construct and dispute over imagined futures.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2070610

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