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In this article, we intend to contribute to the development of constructionist perspectives on entrepreneurship by outlining a view of entrepreneurial processes as temporally, spatially and socially distinct interactions – metaphorically, as projects. More specifically, this will be done by revisiting and developing our earlier research on the application of a project-based view of entrepreneurship (Lindgren and Packendorff, 2003). We outline the basic ontological, epistemological and axiological assumptions of social constructionism and process thinking, whereafter the notion of the project metaphor as a basis for studies of entrepreneurial temporary organizing processes is discussed. Examples of empirical/theoretical themes emerging from the analysis of the empirical data from four case organisations are presented.