Introduction to Special Issue on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Communication in the Context of Globalization

Abstract

The context of 21st-century globalization has witnessed a shift toward an entrepreneurial and innovation economy (Schumpeter, 1942/1987). Intersecting with these changes is the increasingly distributed and fluid nature of workplace activities as information, signs, symbols, actors, discourses, narratives, policies, and objects flow across borders, or “scapes” (Appadurai, 1996). This deeply contested process entails unequal encounters across difference that are linked to new arrangements of culture and power (Tsing, 2005). This special issue on innovation, entrepreneurship, and globalization is a call to look more fully at this process and the complex manner in which it is tied to shifting identities, literacies, mobilities, geographies, and the growth of start-up ecosystems worldwide. In making this call, this special issue builds on an emergent body of technical and professional communication (TPC) scholarship in entrepreneurship (Doheny-Farina, 1992; Gerding & Vealey, 2017; Jones, 2017; Lauren & Pigg, 2016a, 2016b; Lucas