Grounding and Developing the Design Perspective on Entrepreneurship: From Individual-Opportunity Nexus to Artifact-Centered Triad
Journal article, 2025

To enhance managerial relevance, entrepreneurship theory should be anchored in frameworks that are both practically useful and conceptually coherent. This essay develops a triadic design perspective on entrepreneurship that incorporates artifacts alongside individuals and environmental circumstances. Building on concepts of epistemic objects (Knorr Cetina), reflective design practice (Sch & ouml;n), and world disclosing (Spinosa et al.), opportunities are conceptualized as actively framed situations, within which ventures are designed, through the use of more or less concrete entrepreneurial artifacts. This resulting account of entrepreneurship as an artifact-centered and potentially transformative process of design will hopefully offer a robust foundation for advancing entrepreneurship research and practice.

entrepreneurship

process thinking

change/transformation

Author

Henrik Berglund

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Entrepreneurship and Strategy

Dimo Dimov

University of Bath

Reykjavik University

Journal of Management Inquiry

1056-4926 (ISSN) 15526542 (eISSN)

Vol. In Press

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Business Administration

DOI

10.1177/10564926241308479

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3/27/2025