Bengt Johannisson – författare

In present digital times the focus is on globalization and the dynamics and complexities that it creates. However, in spite of being dominated by technology the world remains populated by human beings practising a localized everyday life. This contrast should challenge every researcher who is concerned with business and societal development and how that is contingent upon the institutional and cultural (national) context. In this book, Swedish researchers reflect upon entrepreneurship as a possible mediator between local and global economic and social concerns. Using as a point of departure the tensions between a functional, footloose rationale and a territorial rationale tied to place, the authors provide different aspects on regional development in a globalised world. A shared concern is the importance of recognizing the many appearances of entrepreneurship that brings it beyond being an innovative force in the market.

The book thus presents different strategies and tactics for pursuing localized economic development and it also critically reviews adopted public support programmes and measures of the (local) business climate. The conclusive message is that only by bridging the functional and territorial views will it be possible to sustain, and possibly enhance, economic and social life in local places as well as in our shared world.

This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

In present digital times the focus is on globalization and the dynamics and complexities that it creates. However, in spite of being dominated by technology the world remains populated by human beings practising a localized everyday life. This contrast should challenge every researcher who is concerned with business and societal development and how that is contingent upon the institutional and cultural (national) context. In this book, Swedish researchers reflect upon entrepreneurship as a possible mediator between local and global economic and social concerns. Using as a point of departure the tensions between a functional, footloose rationale and a territorial rationale tied to place, the authors provide different aspects on regional development in a globalised world. A shared concern is the importance of recognizing the many appearances of entrepreneurship that brings it beyond being an innovative force in the market.

The book thus presents different strategies and tactics for pursuing localized economic development and it also critically reviews adopted public support programmes and measures of the (local) business climate. The conclusive message is that only by bridging the functional and territorial views will it be possible to sustain, and possibly enhance, economic and social life in local places as well as in our shared world.

This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Disclosing Entrepreneurship as Practice outlines and demonstrates this ''‘enactive’'' approach and its outcomes in terms of a proposed practice theory of entrepreneurship. Presenting entrepreneurship as a sense-making, stabilising force in a liquid and ambiguous world, accordingly addressed as ‘''entrepreneuring’'', Bengt Johannisson argues that the duality of shrewdness and prudence provides the appropriate knowledge needed to practice entrepreneurship. By generalising entrepreneurship as creative organizing in multiple arenas beyond just the market, and conceptualising entrepreneurship as practice, this book presents a compelling rationale for considering entrepreneuring as ‘''routinized improvisation’'' dealing with situations as they arise.

Reflective and thoughtful, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of entrepreneurship concerned with theoretical and methodological matters, as well as those engaged with qualitative methodology in the social sciences.

Entreprenörskap erkänns som en central företeelse i vår tid. Dessvärre utforskas sällan dess nyansrika och dubbelbottnade värld. Detta är olyckligt med tanke på att outtalade paradoxer kan få betydande konsekvenser för vår förståelse av entreprenörskapet. Med sin ”50 nyanser av entreprenörskap” erbjuder Bengt Johannisson en bred inblick i alla de motsägelsefulla skepnader som entreprenörskapet kan ta. Bokens lättillgängliga berättelser blandade med kloka reflektioner öppnar upp för en mer djuplodande förståelse för entreprenörskapets praktik.

Karin BerglundProfessor i entreprenörskap vid Stockholms universitet

Många människor tror sig förstå vad entreprenörskap är. Men Bengt Johannisson visar med boken ”50 nyanser av entreprenörskap” hur mångtydigt entreprenörskap kan vara. Författaren har en alldeles speciell förmåga att se helheten i en entreprenörs alla drivkrafter. Varje nyans av/aspekt på entreprenörskap inleds med en fråga om entreprenörskapets karaktär som kan besvaras med både ett JA och ett NEJ. Detta gör boken intressant för läsaren som kan jämföra dess många budskap med sin egen bild av entreprenörskap.

Mats BirgerssonStyrelseordförande i det sociala företaget Atrium,tidigare VD i Fresh AB

Entreprenörskap erkänns som en central företeelse i vår tid. Dessvärre utforskas sällan dess nyansrika och dubbelbottnade värld. Detta är olyckligt med tanke på att outtalade paradoxer kan få betydande konsekvenser för vår förståelse av entreprenörskapet. Med sin ”50 nyanser av entreprenörskap” erbjuder Bengt Johannisson en bred inblick i alla de motsägelsefulla skepnader som entreprenörskapet kan ta. Bokens lättillgängliga berättelser blandade med kloka reflektioner öppnar upp för en mer djuplodande förståelse för entreprenörskapets praktik.

Karin BerglundProfessor i entreprenörskap vid Stockholms universitet

Många människor tror sig förstå vad entreprenörskap är. Men Bengt Johannisson visar med boken ”50 nyanser av entreprenörskap” hur mångtydigt entreprenörskap kan vara. Författaren har en alldeles speciell förmåga att se helheten i en entreprenörs alla drivkrafter. Varje nyans av/aspekt på entreprenörskap inleds med en fråga om entreprenörskapets karaktär som kan besvaras med både ett JA och ett NEJ. Detta gör boken intressant för läsaren som kan jämföra dess många budskap med sin egen bild av entreprenörskap.

Mats BirgerssonStyrelseordförande i det sociala företaget Atrium,tidigare VD i Fresh AB