Abstract
This paper presents a practice-based perspective on entrepreneuring; it is concerned with finding out what entrepreneurs actually do and how this is influenced and enabled by their social context. This perspective illuminates data from a case study of the dreams, discoveries, and creations of Stan Shih, the founder and owner-manager of Acer. The data, in turn, are used to deepen the conceptual framework, address three distinctive contextual systems – business, policy, and technology – that embrace entrepreneurship, and discuss the practice of entrepreneuring in context across different time periods.