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"'Philosophy is inescapable'. This is the powerful mantra and call to action of this authoritative and informative collection of essays. Acting upon the conviction that empirical scrutiny only takes us so far in understanding the full nature of entrepreneurship, this text provides a set of thoughtful, and refreshing commentaries on the different ways in which philosophical assumptions shape entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship scholarship will be richer for the reading of it."
Denise Elaine Fletcher, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
"This book offers the reader a variety of philosophical ideas and approaches to spur reflection on taken for granted assumptions about what entrepreneurship is and the ways entrepreneurship scholars understand this phenomenon. The chapters in this book go beyond critiquing current ideas and perspectives, rather, the book opens up important lines of inquiry in such topic areas as: uncertainty, the imagination, social construction, critical realism, and the nature of failure. I expect that many of the insights from this book will provide directions for major avenues of entrepreneurship scholarship over the next decade. Scholars who want clues about the future direction of the entrepreneurship field would be wise to explore this book."
William B. Gartner, Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship, Babson College, USA
Contents
Introduction: Reflecting on our philosophical journey
Stratos Ramoglou, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Alain Fayolle and Katerina Nicolopoulou
Applying Philosophy to Entrepreneurship and the Social Sciences
Russ McBride
New partial theory in entrepreneurship: explanation, examination, exploitation and exemplification
Richard J. Arend
Social constructionism and entrepreneurial opportunity
Luke Pittaway, Rachida Aissaoui and Joe Fox
Serious realist philosophy and applied entrepreneurship
Lee Martin and Nick Wilson
Critical realism as a supporting philosophy for entrepreneurship and small business studies
John Kitching
The other reading: Reflections of postcolonial deconstruction for critical entrepreneurship studies
Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen and Vesa Puhakka
Cruel optimism: the stories of entrepreneurial attachments
Natasha Slutskaya, Oliver Mallett and Janet Borgerson
Critiquing and renewing the entrepreneurial imagination
Neil A. Thompson
Examining the contributions of Social Science to Entrepreneurship: the cases of Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism
Katerina Nicolopoulou and Christine Samy
A Unified Account of the Firm: Deontic Architecture
Brian R. Gordon and Russ McBride
Uncertainty under Entrepreneurship
Dimo Dimov
