Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Challenging Dominant Discourses

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.

1. Critical Entrepreneurship Studies – a Manifesto Caroline Essers, Pascal Dey, Deirdre Tedmanson and Karen VerduynSection 1: Contesting Neo-Liberal Aspects of Traditional Entrepreneurship Approaches 2. Social Entrepreneurs: Precious and Precarious Karin Berglund3. Social Enterprise and the Everydayness of Precarious Indigenous Cambodian Villagers: Challenging ethnocentric epistemologies Isaac Lyne4. Reasons to be Fearful: The ‘Google Model of Production’, entrepreneurship, corporate power, and the concentration of dispersed knowledge Gerard HanlonSection 2: Locating New Forms of Indigenous and Community-Based Entrepreneurship5. Emerging Entrepreneurship in South America Miguel Imas6. Challenging Leadership in Discourses of Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Australia Deirdre Tedmanson and Michelle Evans7. Feeding the City: The importance of the informal Warung restaurants for the urban economy in Indonesia Peter de Boer and Lothar SmithSection 3: Critiquing the Archetype of the White, Christian Entrepreneur 8. Injecting Reality into the Migrant Entrepreneurship Agenda Monder Ram, Trevor Jones and Maria Villares9. Bringing Strategy Back: Ethnic minority entrepreneurs’ construction of legitimacy by ‘fitting in’ and ‘standing out’ in the creative industries Annelies Thoelen and Patrizia Zanoni10. A Critical Reflection on Female Migrant Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands Karen Verduyn and Caroline EssersSection 4: Challenging the Gendered Sub-Text in Entrepreneurship11. Critically Evaluating Contemporary Entrepreneurship from a Feminist Perspective Susan Marlow and Haya Al-Dajani12. On Entrepreneurship and Empowerment: Postcolonial feminist interventions Banu Ozkazanc-Pan13. Bridging the Gap Between Resistance

Caroline Essers is Associate Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management at Radboud University, the Netherlands.Pascal Dey is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Deirdre Tedmanson is Associate Professor and Associate Head of School (Academic) in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia. Karen Verduyn is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Vrije UniversiteitAmsterdam, The Netherlandsand Programme Director of their MSc in Entrepreneurship.