Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship

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.

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