Overview
- Provides a comprehensive, critical critique of the concept of entrepreneurship from an interdisciplinary perspective
- A counterbalance to the prevailing pro-entrepreneurship narrative
- Provides various perspectives against entrepreneurship such as lexical semantics, Marxism, philosophy of science and psychology
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores whether there is reason to be against entrepreneurship. Just like literature on the darker sides of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, the book is an answer to the one-sided, overly positive and uncritical image of entrepreneurship. The “twist” in this book, in comparison with literature on dark sides of entrepreneurship, is to explore being against entrepreneurship. From various perspectives such as lexical semantics, Marxism, philosophy of science and psychology, the contributors contemplate on why there may be reason to be against entrepreneurship discourse as well as entrepreneurship practice. Some chapters are based on first-hand empirical data, others are conceptual. The main overall conclusion is that there are some strong arguments for being against entrepreneurship discourse, as well as for being against certain aspects of entrepreneurship practice. Before it is reasonable to be against entrepreneurship practice in total, a convincing and practicable alternative needs to be developed. This book will be valuable reading for entrepreneurship scholars, as well as academics working in the fields of business ethics, (critical) management, and international business.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Anders Örtenblad is Professor of Work Life Science at the University of Agder, Norway. He has edited books for, e.g., Edward Elgar Publishing, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge and Sage. He is the founder of the book series Palgrave Debates in Business and Management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Against Entrepreneurship
Book Subtitle: A Critical Examination
Editors: Anders Örtenblad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47937-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47936-7Published: 29 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47939-8Published: 29 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47937-4Published: 28 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Faith, Spirituality and Business