Rooting so We Can Flow: Weaving the Fabric of Transformational Scholarship in Entrepreneurship

Contemporary permacrises have enhanced calls for a re-thinking of entrepreneurship scholarship. The Ink Way re-imagined the practices and philosophies of Enterprise Scholars through an innovative 4-day writing and walking workshop retreat. Critical analysis of the workshop's outcomes and artefacts revealed the importance of connectivity, community, and collaboration, within the academy and immersed in (field study) contexts, in diverse places across time, language and people(s). Yet this can be a demanding journey, of both becoming lost, and then finding the way. We identified two practices that could assist transformational scholarship: Whilst rooting practices ground us within mesh works of connected community, complex place, and contested journey, flowing practices weave and knot together the threads of the in-between, theory and practice, the lived experiences of scholar and entrepreneur alike, and of individual and community, reality and reflection.