Narrating Entrepreneurship: a Complexity Adaptive System Perspective

• Main Authors: Shao-yi Lin, 林韶怡
• Other Authors: Stephen D. Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hhzt37

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 企業管理學系研究所 === 95 === In the past, most entrepreneurship researches were constructed on static, unilateral, single-level perspectives. They were used to adopt logic positivism as methodology so that it’s hard to see the dynamic process of entrepreneurship. In this paper, I avoid following such paradigm and seek a novel solution in entrepreneurship study. I adopt complexity adaptive system (CAS) as a new theoretical perspective and narrative inquiry as a fresh methodology. In this way, entrepreneurship is viewed as a dynamic process, and all the accounts are arranged in four entrepreneurship stories: “The first step : far from equilibrium”, “Strange attractors : vision and core capability”, “Dawn of the chaos : self-organization”, and “The pattern accompanied innovation: emergence”. Through the lens of CAS, this research expresses that successful entrepreneurship is simply not the result of perfect planning in advance or opportunity identification. In fact, entrepreneurs try to enact self-organizing through interactions with the outsiders and finally generate innovation. Organizations should view chaos as normal condition thus they can keep evolution to survive. With these metaphors, the research attempt to inspire entrepreneurs and make their entrepreneurship come off.