It is widely recognized that entrepreneurship is vital to regional economic development. And recent studies in entrepreneurial expertise have shown that effectuation is important to doing entrepreneurship well. Furthermore, since expertise involves teachable and learnable aspects of a knowledge...

Borrowing from Rorty (1989:37), this article portrays the entrepreneurial process as a mechanism through which "private obsession" fulfills "public need." It begins with an argument that a deeper understanding of contingency can enhance management scholarship in general and entrepreneurship in...