Exploring processual and critical avenues at the crossroad of entrepreneurship and project management

• Published in: International journal of managing projects in business Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 2 - 5
• Main Authors: Germain, Olivier, Aubry, Monique
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley Emerald Publishing Limited 24-05-2019; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Epistemology; Intrapreneurs; Project management; Society; Value creation
• ISSN: 1753-8378; 1753-8386
• DOI: 10.1108/IJMPB-03-2019-215

Both fields also face some stimulating challenges about unfolding the range of epistemological assumptions beyond a functionalist-positivist paradigm which over-estimated the place of tools, rational action and efficiency (Konstantinou and Müller, 2016). More broadly, Lindgren and Packendorff (2003, p. 89) suggest the potentialities of a project-based approach to entrepreneurship based on three proximities: entrepreneurial acts are temporary collective experiences in different contexts; entrepreneurship can be studied in terms of people performing entrepreneurial acts in their everyday life; entrepreneurial acts are discontinuities in individual life paths that imply identity (re)constructions. [...]the project management may contribute to a de-mythologization of the heroic figure of the entrepreneur as project managers face a large range of constraints and tests in their everyday life and a universe of constraints that force them to create and unfold continuous practices of resistance and negotiation. A better understanding of the exploratory side of the project manager profession would benefit from a partnership with the research stream in intrapreneurship, which deals with the paradoxes underlying the multiple roles of intrapreneurs. The interest of this paper is certainly its philosophical approach based on Lunhmann and a systemic-discursive perspective. [...]it takes out the assumption of a given beneficial convergence between the two fields arguing for a creative tension between the two fields.