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The contributors focus on the individual, organisational, and
institutional levels of social entrepreneurship, addressing the
role of personal values and leadership in the conduct of
initiatives while stressing the importance of stakeholders in
relation to human resource management, innovation, or opportunity
discovery.
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 emerged to ask the questions
which this assumption obscures. Students of entrepreneurship need
to understand why and how entrepreneurship is seen as a moral force
which can solve social problems or protect the environment, or even
to tackle political problems. It is time to evaluate how such
contributions and insights have entered our classrooms. How much -
if any - critical discussion and insight enters our classrooms? How
do we change when students demand to be taught "how to do it", not
to be critical or reflexive? If educators are to bring alternative
perspectives into the classroom, it will entail a new way of
thinking. There is a need to share ideas and practical approaches,
and that is what the contributions to this volume aim to do and to
illuminate new ways forward in entrepreneurship education.
The institutionalization of entrepreneurship is undeniably a good
thing for the members of the research community, as it implies the
legitimization of particular research topics and research
practices; the emergence of norms for developing and publishing
this research; and the creation of structures that provide
employment opportunities and a conducive environment for pursuing
research. However, we can also question if this
institutionalization is such a good thing when it comes to
producing critical, innovative, contextualized, and complex
research or when considered from the point of view of non-academic
entrepreneurship stakeholders and society in general. The objective
of this book is to challenge the main research streams, theories,
methods, epistemologies, assumptions and beliefs dominating the
field of entrepreneurship. In order to achieve this objective, this
book comprises six conceptual and empirical contributions, each one
unorthodox, controversial, inspiring and challenging. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Entrepreneurship and
Regional Development.
Most social ventures cross the boundaries between the private, the
public and the non-profit/voluntary sectors, and this broad
involvement of actors and intertwining of sectors makes the label
'societal' entrepreneurship more appropriate. Stating the
importance of both the local and the broader societal context, the
book reports close-up studies from a variety of social ventures.
Generic themes include positioning societal entrepreneurship
against other images of collective entrepreneurship, critically
penetrating its assumptions and practices and proposing ways of
promoting societal entrepreneurship more widely.
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 emerged to ask the questions
which this assumption obscures. Students of entrepreneurship need
to understand why and how entrepreneurship is seen as a moral force
which can solve social problems or protect the environment, or even
to tackle political problems. It is time to evaluate how such
contributions and insights have entered our classrooms. How much -
if any - critical discussion and insight enters our classrooms? How
do we change when students demand to be taught "how to do it", not
to be critical or reflexive? If educators are to bring alternative
perspectives into the classroom, it will entail a new way of
thinking. There is a need to share ideas and practical approaches,
and that is what the contributions to this volume aim to do and to
illuminate new ways forward in entrepreneurship education.
The institutionalization of entrepreneurship is undeniably a good
thing for the members of the research community, as it implies the
legitimization of particular research topics and research
practices; the emergence of norms for developing and publishing
this research; and the creation of structures that provide
employment opportunities and a conducive environment for pursuing
research. However, we can also question if this
institutionalization is such a good thing when it comes to
producing critical, innovative, contextualized, and complex
research or when considered from the point of view of non-academic
entrepreneurship stakeholders and society in general. The objective
of this book is to challenge the main research streams, theories,
methods, epistemologies, assumptions and beliefs dominating the
field of entrepreneurship. In order to achieve this objective, this
book comprises six conceptual and empirical contributions, each one
unorthodox, controversial, inspiring and challenging. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Entrepreneurship and
Regional Development.
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