“The best way to predict the future is to create it”: Entrepreneurship as a nexus of future-making practices

2026

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This paper reframes entrepreneurship as a dynamic process of actively creating the future through a nexus of daily practices, offering a new lens for understanding temporal tensions and future-making.

* Introduces a "future-making lens" to conceptualize entrepreneurship as the ongoing enactment of multiple, often conflicting, futures.
* Distinguishes three categories of future-making practices: speculation (opening futures), alignment (coordinating futures), and obligation (closing futures).
* Explores temporal coordination practices (sequencing, decoupling, reframing) that entrepreneurs use to manage tensions between these competing futures.

Tags: entrepreneurship, future-making, temporal practices, practice theory, future tensions

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