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Critical Entrepreneurship Studies: A Manifesto

Series
Routledge Rethinking Entrepreneurship Research
ISBN
9781138938878
Type
book section
Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
Essers, Caroline
Dey, Pascal  
Tedmanson, Deirdre
Verduyn, Karen
Editor(s)
Essers, Caroline
Dey, Pascal
Tedmanson, Deirdre
Verduyn, Karen
Abstract
In light of the ongoing dominance of functionalist approaches as well as recent signs of change towards more critical and nuanced perspectives, we offer this book as a collection of critical narratives which render visible diverse examples of non-traditional entrepreneurship as well as usually overshadowed aspects of ‘traditional’ entrepreneurship. The chapters in this book interrogate entrepreneurship from a range of differing perspectives. They each reveal how extant research has tended to privilege entrepreneurship as a distinct field of economic action and an exclusive activity for distinct groups of people, while at the same time illustrating examples of other, more collective and value-based forms of entrepreneurial organising and exchange. Accordingly, the book takes issue with and exposes some of the dominant ideologies, intellectual traditions and prevailing assumptions which bind entrepreneurship within the dictum of profit maximisation and wealth creation (Görling and Rehn 2008; Rindova et al. 2009). At the same time, the book assumes a pro-active stance in seeking to position entrepreneurship as an activity, behaviour or process which can be linked to new ethical and political possibilities. Together, the chapters give voice to unheard stories, places and potentialities of entrepreneurship which are usually left out of existing research (Steyaert and Katz 2004). In this book, entrepreneurship is reconceptualised as a social change activity that moves against the grain of orthodoxy in order to realise spaces of freedom and otherness (Dey and Steyaert 2016; Hjorth 2004; Verduyn et al. 2014; Essers and Tedmanson 2014).
Funding(s)
Emancipation as Contested Translation: Toward a Dialectic Understanding of Emancipatory Organizing  
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Book title
Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship : Challenging Dominant Discourses
Publisher
Routledge
Publisher place
Abingdon
Start page
1
End page
14
Pages
14
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/102987
Subject(s)

social sciences

business studies

Division(s)

IWE - Institute for B...

Eprints ID
251751
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