Full Description
This book offers a critique of social justice theory and its impact on entrepreneurship scholarship. It traces its deep roots in postmodernism by positioning entrepreneurship within these new intellectual, social, and economic environments. It highlights current philosophical assumptions, with implications for boundary conditions that we apply as scientists. Science depends on theoretical assumptions and boundary conditions. Unfortunately, a glaring weakness in entrepreneurship research has been its general failure to identify these premises. No theory is universally applicable, so its assumptions and boundary conditions are what give it analytical power. Where do they come from? Simply stated, they come from a theory's philosophy of science. However, even more rare than stating assumptions and boundary conditions is to discuss a study's governing philosophy. In fact, no known research published in entrepreneurship has discussed a study's philosophical orientation. This provocative work details postmodern concerns related to critical theory, their origins, their status, and specifically how they impact entrepreneurship and those who are not designated as either the victimized or part of the white patriarchy. It will challenge the current direction of entrepreneurship research and confront the general acceptance of the tenets of postmodernism among management scholars.
Contents
Chapter 1 Social Justice Theory as a Disorganized Religion.- Chapter 2 The Place of Postmodernism in Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 3 The Philosophical Derivation of Postmodernism.- Chapter 4 The Collapse of Reason and the Abandonment of Reality.- Chapter 5 Postmodernism's Attack on Liberal Western Values.- Chapter 6 Postmodernism's Impact on Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 7 Discrimination as a Postmodern Phenomenon.- Chapter 8 Feminisms, Gender, Disability and Fat Studies as Postmodern Concerns.- Chapter 9 Postmodern's Critical Theory and Intersectionalism.- Chapter 10 Queer Theory.- Chapter 11 Postmodern Social Justice in Action.- Chapter 12 Postmodernism in the Form of Postcolonial Theory.- Chapter 13 Theoretical and Applied Implications of Social Justice Theory for Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 14 Entrepreneurship with a Social Justice Interpretation.
