Professor David Goss’s paper ‘Power as Practice: A Micro-sociological Analysis of the Dynamics of Emancipatory Entrepreneurship’ is at the top of the Editors Choice list in the 4* journal Organization Studies.

Professor Goss is lead author on the paper which also involved colleagues from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. The paper explains how social rituals shape entrepreneurial behaviour through the exercise of power within social situations. It provides a novel theory of entrepreneurial motivation and an alternative to conventional conceptions of power.