Humanistic approaches to change: Entrepreneurship and transformation

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Table 1. Special issue papers on entrepreneurship and transformation.

Authors	Title	Perspective	Temporality	Semantics
Hadar Ram, Valeria Giacomin & Cheryl Wakslak	Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship	Use of construal level theory to interpret entrepreneurial imagination and transformation anew	Exploring idea development in time and over time using construal level theory as an aid	Rethinking of micro-level contexts for entrepreneurial imagination from the perspective of entrepreneurial actors
Morten Tinning	Imagined futures of sail and steam – The role of community in envisioning entrepreneurial ventures	Drawing attention to entrepreneurial transformation as a communal process	Microhistorical analysis of in time group debate, dealing with over time industry and technological transformation	Collective re-imagining of the value and consequences of large-scale technological innovation in a specific context
Shuang L. Frost & Adam K. Frost	Taxi Shanghai: Entrepreneurship and semi-colonial context	Seeing anew the reintegration of Shanghai despite the fragmentation created by semi-colonialism	Integrating a fragmented city over time through in time entrepreneurial action	Entrepreneurial re-imagining of infrastructure through new knowledge, technology, and practices that transform a city
Ewald Kibler & Lauri Laine	Counternarrating entrepreneurship	The historian as storyteller, narrating entrepreneurial action and rethinking tropes	Understanding creative destruction over time through in time narratives	Conceptual re-evaluation of entrepreneurship’s destructive side as one of capitalism’s engines
Rick Colbourne, Ana Maria Peredo & Irene Henriques	Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight	Indigenous-centric narrative as counter to mainstream history of economic life in Canada	Entrepreneurial contributions by Indigenous people in time that add to their marginalisation over time	Re-evaluation of the link between entrepreneurship, power and transformation that led to persistent structural discrimination