Routledge Rethinking Entrepreneurship Research
About the Book Series
The current focus on entrepreneurship as a purely market-based phenomenon and an unquestionably desirable economic and profitable activity leads to undervaluing and under researching important issues in relation to power, ideology or phenomenology. New postures, new theoretical lenses and new approaches are needed to study entrepreneurship as a contextualized and socially embedded phenomenon. The objective of this series therefore is to adopt a critical and constructive posture towards the theories, methods, epistemologies, assumptions and beliefs which dominate mainstream thinking. It aims to provide a forum for scholarship which questions the prevailing assumptions and beliefs currently dominating entrepreneurship research and invites contributions from a wide range of different communities of scholars, which focus on novelty, diversity and critique.
Philosophical Reflexivity and Entrepreneurship Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Alain Fayolle, Stratos Ramoglou, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Katerina Nicolopoulou
December 18, 2020
"‘Philosophy is inescapable’. This is the powerful mantra and call to action of this authoritative and informative collection of essays. Acting upon the conviction that empirical scrutiny only takes us so far in understanding the full nature of entrepreneurship, this text provides a set of ...
Rethinking Entrepreneurship: Debating Research Orientations
1st Edition
Edited
By Alain Fayolle, Philippe Riot
December 18, 2020
Entrepreneurship is a growing field of research, attracting researchers from many different disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology, and management. The concept of entrepreneurship, and research in the field, is becoming institutionalized, increasingly oriented by influential trends,...
Revitalizing Entrepreneurship Education: Adopting a critical approach in the classroom
1st Edition
Edited
By Karin Berglund, Karen Verduyn
December 18, 2020
Within mainstream scholarship, it’s assumed without question that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education are desirable and positive economic activities. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches and political-philosophical perspectives, critical entrepreneurship studies has ...
Challenging Entrepreneurship Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans Landstrom, Annaleena Parhankangas, Alain Fayolle, Philippe Riot
December 10, 2019
The growth of entrepreneurship research has been accompanied by an increased convergence and institutionalization of the field. In many ways this is of course positive, but it also represents how the field has become "mainstream" with the concomitant risk that individual scholars become embedded in...
Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship: Challenging Dominant Discourses
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Essers, Pascal Dey, Deirdre Tedmanson, Karen Verduyn
December 10, 2019
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...
Family Entrepreneurship: Rethinking the research agenda
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathleen Randerson, Cristina Bettinelli, Giovanna Dossena, Alain Fayolle
March 28, 2019
Family business is the most prominent form of business organization, and its importance to the global economy cannot be under-estimated. Until recently, the impact of the family on entrepreneurial firms has been under-researched, leading to a conceptual gap between the two areas of study, and an ...