Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship

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.

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 Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Programme Director of their MSc in Entrepreneurship.