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Actualizing entrepreneurial futures: Imaginaries, visions, and the Olivetti Corporation
Entrepreneurship is often understood as the pursuit of opportunities or the creation of new ventures, yet these perspectives offer limited insight into how entrepreneurs sustain coherence between imagined futures and feasible action over extended periods of time. Entrepreneurs commit resources and coordinate others around desired futures they be…
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Vittoria Magrelli, Roy Suddaby, Trevor Israelsen, Emanuela Rondi and
Alfredo De Massis
29 October 2026, ePub before print, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2026.106661
Actualizing entrepreneurial futures: Imaginaries, visions, and the Olivetti Corporation
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Entrepreneurship is often understood as the pursuit of opportunities or the creation of new ventures, yet these perspectives offer limited insight into how entrepreneurs sustain coherence between imagined futures and feasible action over extended periods of time. Entrepreneurs commit resources and coordinate others around desired futures they be…
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