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All rights reserved. No parts of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Preface This book is the result of a research process that for nine years has constantly been interrupted. The first interviews were conducted in February 2005, during my Masters class, and the end has now come through the public PhD defense in May 2014. To write is an individual endeavour, to accomplish writing is a collective one and many are the friends and colleagues (luckily these are not exclusive categories) who have been involved in the process. My gratitude towards my supervisors Daniel Hjorth and Bent Meier Sørensen, whom I nowadays can call colleagues and friends, cannot be overstated. You share a passion for the academic trade and a compassion for all of us that are around you. You also share a leadership style that is characterised by freedom, which leads to individual development for those you lead as well as endless amounts of work for yourselves. Thank you. Before I became a PhD fellow at CBS I taught at Växjö University (today Linnaeus University). From these years I would like to thank Bent Johannisson in particular, who is to blame for my career choice altogether and with whom I wrote the first paper of this dissertation. I would like to thank Joakim Vitell and Johan Löfgren, who are the fellow students that I conducted the study with, as well as Karin Jonnergård, who did not want to go to Kosovo/a, and thus made me go instead, and Emma Andersson, with whom I shared many experiences in Kosovo/a. In Växjö I became part of a PhD group, which became known under the self-proclaimed name ‘the Cosy Trap’ (mysfällan). Here, among other things, I found a co-writer, Frederic Bill, with whom I wrote the last two papers in this dissertation with, and with whom I expect to write many, many more. I want to thank the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum (Forum för småföretagsforskning), from where we received funding for many projects during these years. I would also like to thank Saara Taalas, who taught me how to forgive myself, which made finishing this project possible. In 2007 I became a PhD fellow at CBS. I would like to thank my colleagues at MPP, and also the Department, in terms of collegial and administrative support as well as for the funding that I have received when traveling and organizing events. Of all my fantastic colleagues I especially would like to mention Birgitte Gorm Hansen who I shared office and, more importantly, life mysteries with, and Thomas Basbøll, who has struggled with my writing and who has also become a friend. I would also like to thank Maja Horst and Rob Austin for early comments on my project. My PhD scholarship was an international scholarship funded by FI (Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation, Denmark). This scholarship has provided me with many opportunities. One of them was to spend the greater part of my first year as a PhD fellow at University of Essex. Here I was schooled in Critical Management Studies, which became the second leg of my research strategy, alongside the interpretive and creative process view that Bengt and Daniel inspired. I would like to thank Birke Otto, Heather Höpfl and Monika Kostera, who have been role models as well as discussion partners over the years. My UK-based network also includes Steffen Böhm and Campbell Jones, who never refrains from challenging my positions nor from encouraging me to move forward. I would also like to thank the assessment committee, Bill Gartner, Robin Holt and Karen Verduijn, for the careful reading and evaluation of my PhD dissertation. Two of the most important experiences I have had over the PhD years are ephemera and SCOS. In 2008 I was invited to join ephemera. This experience is probably what has formed me most as a scholar, mostly due to the incredible crowd that ephemera houses. Here I have learned both how careful scholarship is crafted and what collegial support can feel like, and it is here that I get energized and motivated to continue no matter what. I especially would like to thank Nick Butler, with whom I have worked closely in the ephemera project for almost 2 years, and we are somehow still friends, even more so now than before. I was part of the SCOS board from 2009-2013 and I would like to thank the board members from this time, in particular David Sköld and Thomas Lennerfors, for both collegial operations and the friendship we have found. This book has been written alongside the precious project Family. I met my husband early into both Ulf’s and my PhD process (thank you Mysfällan) and during this process we have found the time not only to write two PhD’s but also to get married and to produce what will in August become 2 children, Holger and his yet-to-be-named sibling. Well-spent interruptions. We would not succeed with anything, however, if it weren’t for our parents, who somehow always find the time to be there for us when we need it the most. We are lucky to be so loved. Lena Olaison May 2014 Acknowledgement This study has received funding from and would like to thank: • FI (Styrelsen for Forskning og Innovation, Denmark). • Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum (Entreprenörskapsforum/Forum för småföretagsforskning). This is an article-based dissertation, based on four previously published manuscripts. Some of the studies have generated more than one paper. The choice of which version to include in the dissertation has been motivated by thematic considerations and the fit of the content of each article into the larger whole. Chapter 4: Emergency entrepreneurship: creative organizing in the eye of the storm: Johannisson, B. and Olaison, L. (2008): “Emergency entrepreneurship: creative organizing in the eye of the storm”, pp. 243-266, in Landström, H., Crijns, H., Laveren, E. and Smallbone, D. (eds.): Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Growth and Performance: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. This study has also been published in: Johannisson, B. and Olaison, L. (2008): “The moment of truth: reconstructing entrepreneurship and social capital in the eye of the storm”, pp. 55-78, in Knorringa, P. and van Staveren, I. (eds.): Beyond Social Capital: A critical approach, Routledge, New York. Johannisson, B. and Olaison, L. (2007): “The moment of truth: reconstructing entrepreneurship and social capital in the eye of the storm”. Review of Social Economy, vol LXY, no. 1, pp. 55-78. Chapter 5: An emerging legend of a Kosovar heroine: narrating female entrepreneurs: Olaison, L. (2008): “An emerging legend of a Kosovar heroine: narrating female entrepreneurs”, pp. 92-101, in Kostera, M. (ed.): Organizational Olympians: Heroes, Heroines and Villains of Organizational Myths, Palgrave, London. Chapter 6: The indirect approach of semi-focused groups: Bill, F. and Olaison, L. (2009): “The indirect approach of semi-focused groups: expanding focus group research through role-playing”. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, vol., 4, no. 1, pp.