This paper sets out a theoretical perspective for understanding the emergence of innovations across multiple hierarchical levels, namely, the innovator, the organisation and the industry network. The perspective is emergentist, drawing on complexity theory, and considers innovation as the...

This paper addresses the relationship between foresight and entrepreneurship. It characterises the foresight inherent in entrepreneurial activity as situated within particular discourses, or communities of practice (CoPs) in a range of structures. The argument is based on the use of complexity...

This paper uses newspaper articles to construct an account of the meteoric rise and eventual fall from grace of Takafumi Horie, a Japanese Internet entrepreneur. This trajectory is explored through a qualitative methodology that analyses the content of articles in international newspapers...