Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship : Challenging Dominant Discourses

Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship questions the accepted norms and dominant assumptions of entrepreneurship scholarship. It explores how entrepreneurship study tends to privilege certain forms of economic action, while implying other more collective forms of organization and exchange are somehow problematic. Deconstructing assumptions and providing space for alternative visions, this book engages openly with the contradictions, and tensions at the heart of entrepreneurship. It will be of interest to entrepreneurship researchers, advanced students and policy-makers as well as scholars of critical management studies.

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.