In this essay, I investigate entrepreneurial actions emerging from self-employed healthcare practitioners who belong to a CoP. I answer the question of “How entrepreneurial actions may emerge unwittingly from practitioners who are part of communities of practice?” by studying their day-to-day practice through two-weeks of full immersion and two-years of reflection on my experience and my interactions with study participants. Results unveil a ‘taking whatever comes’ practice as a recurrent practice in their social interactions. This practice initiates a ‘process to entrepreneuring’ with multiple open possibilities of emerging entrepreneurship. Belonging to a CoP allows self-employed practitioners to keep their entrepreneurship on track as the CoP plays a regulatory role. The contribution is three-fold: first, I introduce the concept ‘unwitting entrepreneurs’ and call entrepreneurship scholars to push the boundaries of investigation through the recognition of ‘unwitting entrepreneurship’. Second, I unveil entrepreneurs’ openness as practice by elucidating their practice of ‘taking whatever comes’. Third, I suggest further investigation of the potential of CoP as the places that empower and promote the unwitting entrepreneurship among self-employed practitioners.
