The Cogs and Wheels of Cultural Entrepreneurship: The Becoming of New Possibilities
这篇综述整合了40多年来301篇文献，提出一个框架统一文化创业研究的三个传统（文化动员、生产与表达），揭示创业行动如何利用、转化和表达文化以催生新想法、产品或组织。
Cultural entrepreneurship—that is, the cultural dynamics of entrepreneurship, innovation, and change—has attracted significant interest across business, sociology, and creative industries scholarship. However, these disciplines have evolved along separate trajectories, each establishing its own distinct research tradition. This fragmentation has hindered the development of an integrative understanding of how culture shapes, and is shaped by, entrepreneurial action. Drawing on 301 publications spanning over 40 years, we develop a framework that unites three distinct traditions of cultural entrepreneurship research focused on the mobilization, production, and expression of culture. We argue that these traditions, though developed separately, share a fundamental interest in the cultural means and processes that explain the becoming of new possibilities—that is, how novel ideas, products, and organizations come into being and gain recognition. By systematizing the outcomes that each tradition prioritizes and revealing their interconnections, we expose how entrepreneurial action draws on, transforms, and expresses culture. This integration offers a comprehensive understanding of culture as both the medium and outcome of entrepreneurial action, as actors work toward the realization of new possibilities.