Daniel Hjorth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4503348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Hjorth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Hjorth |
| SIGNATURE | HJORTH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3798-2584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 13 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work
As the boundaries of ‘work’ extend to include work that adapts to or brings about new organization, social value and alternative futures, it intersects with entrepreneurship studies in intriguing yet under-developed ways. This special issue focuses on developing this intersection by advancing process and practice theory research on entrepreneuring. Entrepreneuring is a concept that captures the processuality and relationality of entrepreneurship,…
Organizational Entrepreneurship, Politics and the Political
Entrepreneurship, as the creation of new organizations, has globally become an appealing call for individuals and governments alike. Too often still, it is simply associated with the idea of 'enterprise', thus sustaining a pervasive politics of homo economicus agents living a 'measured life' in competition-based individuality. Organizational Entrepreneurship, Politics and the Political disconnects entrepreneurship from the politics of enterprise …
How Aesthetics and Economy Become Conversant in Creative Firms
Research on creative organizations often highlights a concern that economic influences on creative work might crowd out aesthetic influences. How this concern can be managed, however, is not well understood. Using a case study of an economic/aesthetic conflict within a design firm, we develop theory to describe how the economic and aesthetic can be constructively combined. We propose the concept of conversation as a way of theorizing a constructe…
Critique nouvelle – an essay on affirmative-performative entrepreneurship research
What entrepreneurship performs: on affirmation and transmutationIt is perhaps appropriate that performative attempts are made in the genre of essays, for they affirm writing's impact on the world and will thus expose themselves to the risk that nothing changed.Every attempt, announced as such, will of course generate expectations, and failing to meet those expectations is one result.Being convinced that the world flows as a Heraclitean stream, "n…
Organizing cultural projects through legitimising as cultural entrepreneurship
Purpose – This paper is a study of creating organization in the case of cultural projects; cultural entrepreneurship. This includes taking advantage of opportunities and using ones social capital through networks. It is a case study of Vandalorum which is an Swedish international art and design centre with a strong regional connection. They want to offer close collaborations between artists, designers and the creative industry. It is located in V…
Laozi’s Daodejing (6th Century BC)
This chapter examines Daodejing , a compilation of sayings written by Laozi which focuses on engagement in political and practical affairs in early China. It discusses the text of Daodejing , its difficulties, origin, and purpose as well as its emphasis on both action and process. It also outlines the character of Daodejing as an exposition of process, the work’s treatment of the unfolding of process through paradox, the mechanisms of process in …
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911)
Wilhelm Dilthey initially studied theology in Germany but later shifted to philosophy and history. He tackled the specific nature of human sciences in relation to natural sciences and initiated a debate on the connection between understanding and explanation in scientific knowledge. In addition to his own school, he exerted influence on fellow philosophers Martin Heidegger, Helmuth Plessner, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. This chapter explores the forma…
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
Martin Heidegger was a revered German philosopher and teacher, but also a controversial figure due to his political affiliations with the Nazi movement. He was associated with phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics as well as process philosophy. This chapter examines the relevance of Heidegger’s work to process philosophy in organization studies, by discussing his views on the movement of history and the movement of nihilism. It consider…
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)
Born in Leipzig in 1646, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is an influential figure in the world of process philosophy. In addition to his philosophical contributions, Leibniz invented the infinitesimal calculus and binary numbers, along with mathematical and logical forms of notation still used today. Leibniz believed that the worlds of theory, praxis, nature, morals, and the divine as well as the human world all formed one perfect system. This chapter …
Zhuangzi (369 BC)
This chapter examines Zhuangzi , an influential Daoist text written by Zhuang Zhou and named after the Daoist thinker Zhuang Zi (or Chuang-Tzu, c.369–286 BC). It discusses Zhuangzi ’s emphasis on the philosopher’s wisdom regarding political and social management, its concept of personal realization, and its concern with social and political order. It also considers Daoism’s notion of wuwei in relation to wuwo (no self), wudai (no reliance), wugon…
The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies
This book examines process philosophy in organization studies by focusing on the life and work of a specific philosopher such as Jacques Derrida, Zhuang Zi, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Wilhelm Dilthey, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Gabriel Tarde, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Henri Bergson. It looks at process from five different aspects—temporality, wholeness, openness and the open self, force, and potentiality—that all touch …
Process is How Process Does
Process philosophy originally referred to a small group of philosophers including Henri Bergson, William James, and Alfred North Whitehead as well as Heraclitus. These thinkers view the world processually, working from within things and reversing the relationship between ideas and life. This Handbook explores process philosophy’s relationships to organisation studies by focusing on five aspects: temporality, wholeness, openness and the open self,…
Heraclitus (540–480 BC)
This chapter examines Heraclitus’ philosophy and its relationship to process thinking in organization studies. It argues that thinking with Heraclitus makes us think beyond conventional categories and concepts and rethink our views on organization. After providing an overview of Heraclitus’ life, the chapter looks at his writings and discusses the challenges facing Heraclitus scholars. It also provides a background understanding for a way to read…
Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904)
The financial crisis of 2007-2008, which spread from the United States to other parts of the world, gave impetus to a renewed interest in the concepts of contagion and imitation. These are concepts that figure prominently in the work of the French criminologist and sociologist Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904). Since the late 1990s, Tarde's work has witnessed a rebirth in social theory. This chapter offers an interpretation of Tarde and highlights some o…
Entrepreneurship, Sociality and Art: Re-imagining the Public
The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship: A Fourth Movements in Entrepreneurship Book
Building new roads for entrepreneurship research to travel by: On the work of William B. Gartner
The Fate of Phaeton: Baroque Art for Management's Sake
In this paper we inquire into the relationships between the Greek myth of Phaeton and Volkswagen's project to produce a luxury car (named Phaeton). Volkswagen apparently felt that the lack of a luxury car opened the possibility to question their `son-of-God status', just like Phaeton in the Greek story. This inquiry is contextualized in the emergence of a more and more direct art—management relationship, and we approach the relationship through w…
Organizational Entrepreneurship: With de Certeau on Creating Heterotopias (or Spaces for Play)
Focusing on the relation between work as a managerially ordered place and conditions for creativity within such an order, this article uses a number of spatial concepts to elaborate on organizational entrepreneurship as creation of space for play/invention. Organizational entrepreneurship is understood as constituting a silent history of organization and management theory. In crafting a history of the present of entrepreneurship, the author dista…
Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship: A Second Movements in Entrepreneurship Book
Foreword Introduction 1. The Prosaics of Entrepreneurship 2. A Moment in Time 3. Driven Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Taxi Owners in Caracas 4. 'Going Against the Grain': Construction of Entrepreneurial Identities through Narratives 5. Storytelling to be Real: Narrative, Legitimacy Building and Venturing 6. The Devil is in the E-Tale 7. Of Crime and Assumptions in Entrepreneurship 8. The Dramas of Consulting and Counselling for Entrepreneur 9. M…
New Movements in Entrepreneurship
Drawing from contributions by scholars of entrepreneurship from North America, Western Europe and Asia, this text celebrates the vibrancy and interdisciplinarity of entrepreneurship research.
Entrepreneurship beyond (a new) economy: Creative swarms and pathological zones
The relationship between entrepreneurship and the new economy is explored. This exploration builds on the writings of Michel de Certeau, whose examination of the impulsive and the spontaneous in relation to the dominant workings of a phenomenon allow for a culturally sensitive analysis of the role of entrepreneurship in the new economy. De Certeau's notion of creative swarms is borrowed to describe the emerging Internet economy.With its e-compani…
‘Thou Art a Scholar, Speak to it…’ - on Spaces of Speech: A Script
This article argues, based on the work of Bakhtin and de Certeau, that there is no aesthetics without politics and that all academic discourse and practices are enacted through aesthetic forms with inherently political and ethical effects. The article is written in a script-form with indications on how to perform it, acting out or ‘performing’ in a direct way rather than adding to the arguments already present in organizational literature. In a p…
'Thou art a scholar, speak to it …' - on spaces of speech: A script
Hlpe: On HRM and Entrepreneurship
Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904)
The financial crisis of 2007-2008, which spread from the United States to other parts of the world, gave impetus to a renewed interest in the concepts of contagion and imitation. These are concepts that figure prominently in the work of the French criminologist and sociologist Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904). Since the late 1990s, Tarde's work has witnessed a rebirth in social theory. This chapter offers an interpretation of Tarde and highlights some o…
Hlpe: On HRM and Entrepreneurship
‘Thou Art a Scholar, Speak to it…’ - on Spaces of Speech: A Script
This article argues, based on the work of Bakhtin and de Certeau, that there is no aesthetics without politics and that all academic discourse and practices are enacted through aesthetic forms with inherently political and ethical effects. The article is written in a script-form with indications on how to perform it, acting out or ‘performing’ in a direct way rather than adding to the arguments already present in organizational literature. In a p…
'Thou art a scholar, speak to it …' - on spaces of speech: A script
New Movements in Entrepreneurship
Drawing from contributions by scholars of entrepreneurship from North America, Western Europe and Asia, this text celebrates the vibrancy and interdisciplinarity of entrepreneurship research.
Entrepreneurship beyond (a new) economy: Creative swarms and pathological zones
The relationship between entrepreneurship and the new economy is explored. This exploration builds on the writings of Michel de Certeau, whose examination of the impulsive and the spontaneous in relation to the dominant workings of a phenomenon allow for a culturally sensitive analysis of the role of entrepreneurship in the new economy. De Certeau's notion of creative swarms is borrowed to describe the emerging Internet economy.With its e-compani…
Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship: A Second Movements in Entrepreneurship Book
Foreword Introduction 1. The Prosaics of Entrepreneurship 2. A Moment in Time 3. Driven Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Taxi Owners in Caracas 4. 'Going Against the Grain': Construction of Entrepreneurial Identities through Narratives 5. Storytelling to be Real: Narrative, Legitimacy Building and Venturing 6. The Devil is in the E-Tale 7. Of Crime and Assumptions in Entrepreneurship 8. The Dramas of Consulting and Counselling for Entrepreneur 9. M…
Organizational Entrepreneurship: With de Certeau on Creating Heterotopias (or Spaces for Play)
Focusing on the relation between work as a managerially ordered place and conditions for creativity within such an order, this article uses a number of spatial concepts to elaborate on organizational entrepreneurship as creation of space for play/invention. Organizational entrepreneurship is understood as constituting a silent history of organization and management theory. In crafting a history of the present of entrepreneurship, the author dista…
The Fate of Phaeton: Baroque Art for Management's Sake
In this paper we inquire into the relationships between the Greek myth of Phaeton and Volkswagen's project to produce a luxury car (named Phaeton). Volkswagen apparently felt that the lack of a luxury car opened the possibility to question their `son-of-God status', just like Phaeton in the Greek story. This inquiry is contextualized in the emergence of a more and more direct art—management relationship, and we approach the relationship through w…
Building new roads for entrepreneurship research to travel by: On the work of William B. Gartner
Entrepreneurship, Sociality and Art: Re-imagining the Public
The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship: A Fourth Movements in Entrepreneurship Book
Laozi’s Daodejing (6th Century BC)
This chapter examines Daodejing , a compilation of sayings written by Laozi which focuses on engagement in political and practical affairs in early China. It discusses the text of Daodejing , its difficulties, origin, and purpose as well as its emphasis on both action and process. It also outlines the character of Daodejing as an exposition of process, the work’s treatment of the unfolding of process through paradox, the mechanisms of process in …
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911)
Wilhelm Dilthey initially studied theology in Germany but later shifted to philosophy and history. He tackled the specific nature of human sciences in relation to natural sciences and initiated a debate on the connection between understanding and explanation in scientific knowledge. In addition to his own school, he exerted influence on fellow philosophers Martin Heidegger, Helmuth Plessner, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. This chapter explores the forma…
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
Martin Heidegger was a revered German philosopher and teacher, but also a controversial figure due to his political affiliations with the Nazi movement. He was associated with phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics as well as process philosophy. This chapter examines the relevance of Heidegger’s work to process philosophy in organization studies, by discussing his views on the movement of history and the movement of nihilism. It consider…
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)
Born in Leipzig in 1646, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is an influential figure in the world of process philosophy. In addition to his philosophical contributions, Leibniz invented the infinitesimal calculus and binary numbers, along with mathematical and logical forms of notation still used today. Leibniz believed that the worlds of theory, praxis, nature, morals, and the divine as well as the human world all formed one perfect system. This chapter …
Zhuangzi (369 BC)
This chapter examines Zhuangzi , an influential Daoist text written by Zhuang Zhou and named after the Daoist thinker Zhuang Zi (or Chuang-Tzu, c.369–286 BC). It discusses Zhuangzi ’s emphasis on the philosopher’s wisdom regarding political and social management, its concept of personal realization, and its concern with social and political order. It also considers Daoism’s notion of wuwei in relation to wuwo (no self), wudai (no reliance), wugon…
The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies
This book examines process philosophy in organization studies by focusing on the life and work of a specific philosopher such as Jacques Derrida, Zhuang Zi, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Wilhelm Dilthey, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Gabriel Tarde, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Henri Bergson. It looks at process from five different aspects—temporality, wholeness, openness and the open self, force, and potentiality—that all touch …
Process is How Process Does
Process philosophy originally referred to a small group of philosophers including Henri Bergson, William James, and Alfred North Whitehead as well as Heraclitus. These thinkers view the world processually, working from within things and reversing the relationship between ideas and life. This Handbook explores process philosophy’s relationships to organisation studies by focusing on five aspects: temporality, wholeness, openness and the open self,…
Heraclitus (540–480 BC)
This chapter examines Heraclitus’ philosophy and its relationship to process thinking in organization studies. It argues that thinking with Heraclitus makes us think beyond conventional categories and concepts and rethink our views on organization. After providing an overview of Heraclitus’ life, the chapter looks at his writings and discusses the challenges facing Heraclitus scholars. It also provides a background understanding for a way to read…
Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904)
The financial crisis of 2007-2008, which spread from the United States to other parts of the world, gave impetus to a renewed interest in the concepts of contagion and imitation. These are concepts that figure prominently in the work of the French criminologist and sociologist Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904). Since the late 1990s, Tarde's work has witnessed a rebirth in social theory. This chapter offers an interpretation of Tarde and highlights some o…
Organizing cultural projects through legitimising as cultural entrepreneurship
Purpose – This paper is a study of creating organization in the case of cultural projects; cultural entrepreneurship. This includes taking advantage of opportunities and using ones social capital through networks. It is a case study of Vandalorum which is an Swedish international art and design centre with a strong regional connection. They want to offer close collaborations between artists, designers and the creative industry. It is located in V…
Critique nouvelle – an essay on affirmative-performative entrepreneurship research
What entrepreneurship performs: on affirmation and transmutationIt is perhaps appropriate that performative attempts are made in the genre of essays, for they affirm writing's impact on the world and will thus expose themselves to the risk that nothing changed.Every attempt, announced as such, will of course generate expectations, and failing to meet those expectations is one result.Being convinced that the world flows as a Heraclitean stream, "n…
How Aesthetics and Economy Become Conversant in Creative Firms
Research on creative organizations often highlights a concern that economic influences on creative work might crowd out aesthetic influences. How this concern can be managed, however, is not well understood. Using a case study of an economic/aesthetic conflict within a design firm, we develop theory to describe how the economic and aesthetic can be constructively combined. We propose the concept of conversation as a way of theorizing a constructe…
Organizational Entrepreneurship, Politics and the Political
Entrepreneurship, as the creation of new organizations, has globally become an appealing call for individuals and governments alike. Too often still, it is simply associated with the idea of 'enterprise', thus sustaining a pervasive politics of homo economicus agents living a 'measured life' in competition-based individuality. Organizational Entrepreneurship, Politics and the Political disconnects entrepreneurship from the politics of enterprise …
Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work
As the boundaries of ‘work’ extend to include work that adapts to or brings about new organization, social value and alternative futures, it intersects with entrepreneurship studies in intriguing yet under-developed ways. This special issue focuses on developing this intersection by advancing process and practice theory research on entrepreneuring. Entrepreneuring is a concept that captures the processuality and relationality of entrepreneurship,…
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