Description
Entrepreneurship is largely considered to be a positive force, driving venture creation and economic growth. Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship questions the accepted norms and dominant assumptions of scholarship on the matter, and reveals how they can actually obscure important questions of identity, ideology and inequality.
The book’s distinguished authors and editors explore how entrepreneurship study can privilege certain forms of economic action, whilst labelling other, more collective forms of organization and exchange as problematic. Demystifying the archetypal vision of the white, male entrepreneur, this book gives voice to other entrepreneurial subjectivities and engages with the tensions, paradoxes and ambiguities at the heart of the topic.
This challenging collection seeks to further the momentum for alternate analyses of the field, and to promote the growing voice of critical entrepreneurship studies. It is a useful tool for researchers, advanced students and policy-makers.
Table of Contents
1. Critical Entrepreneurship Studies – a Manifesto Caroline Essers, Pascal Dey, Deirdre Tedmanson and Karen Verduyn
Section 1: Contesting Neo-Liberal Aspects of Traditional Entrepreneurship Approaches
2. Social Entrepreneurs: Precious and Precarious Karin Berglund
3. Social Enterprise and the Everydayness of Precarious Indigenous Cambodian Villagers: Challenging ethnocentric epistemologies Isaac Lyne
4. Reasons to be Fearful: The ‘Google Model of Production’, entrepreneurship, corporate power, and the concentration of dispersed knowledge Gerard Hanlon
Section 2: Locating New Forms of Indigenous and Community-Based Entrepreneurship
5. Emerging Entrepreneurship in South America Miguel Imas
6. Challenging Leadership in Discourses of Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Australia Deirdre Tedmanson and Michelle Evans
7. Feeding the City: The importance of the informal Warung restaurants for the urban economy in Indonesia Peter de Boer and Lothar Smith
Section 3: Critiquing the Archetype of the White, Christian Entrepreneur
8. Injecting Reality into the Migrant Entrepreneurship Agenda Monder Ram, Trevor Jones and Maria Villares
9. Bringing Strategy Back: Ethnic minority entrepreneurs’ construction of legitimacy by ‘fitting in’ and ‘standing out’ in the creative industries Annelies Thoelen and Patrizia Zanoni
10. A Critical Reflection on Female Migrant Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands Karen Verduyn and Caroline Essers
Section 4: Challenging the Gendered Sub-Text in Entrepreneurship
11. Critically Evaluating Contemporary Entrepreneurship from a Feminist Perspective Susan Marlow and Haya Al-Dajani
12. On Entrepreneurship and Empowerment: Postcolonial feminist interventions Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
13. Bridging the Gap Between Resistance and Power Through Agency: An empirical analysis of struggle by immigrant woman entrepreneurs Huriye Aygören
Section 5: Deconstructing Entrepreneurship
14. Governance of Welfare and Expropriation of the Common: Polish tales of entrepreneurship Dorota Marsh and Pete Thomas
15. Deconstructing Ecopreneurship Annika Skoglund
