This paper examines the discourses scholars in the field of entrepreneurship use to reflect upon the developments of this discipline and claims these discourses circle around three different versions of the notion of "frontier", namely as "limit", "horizon" and "in-between". While the arguments to limit and focus the field outnumber the horizon-discourse, marking a discipline-to-come, the paper argues to conceive the field of entrepreneurship as a border zone. Concrete activities that can nurture such a border zone are discussed and illustrated: reconsidering and reframing earlier work, connecting current research tracks into focused communities and continuing to invest in experimenting with new and daring approaches.
Special Issue: A Festschrift for Bengt Johannisson
In this article, I look into Bengt Johannisson's experiments with enactive research in the so-called Anamorphosis Project. This methodological experiment was based on the assumption that to understand entrepreneurship, researchers themselves must enact an entrepreneurial process and reflect upon it by engaging in auto-ethnography. By connecting aesthetics and politics, this experiment guides us in seeing methodologies as more than just tools - actually as in(ter)ventions or inventive forms of intervening vis-a-vis societal or community issues. By conceptualizing the performance of scholarship as involving practices of enacting and engaging, I suggest entrepreneurship scholars to take into account the ontological politics of method and to anticipate what can be called methodological experimentation. Drawing upon non-representational theory and actor-network theory, I flesh out the notion of in(ter)vention by emphasizing both its performative and participative dimension
