Against Entrepreneurship: A Critical Examination

Author:   Anders Örtenblad
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
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9783030479367


Pages:   286
Publication Date:   29 October 2020
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Anders Örtenblad
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.534kg
ISBN:  

9783030479367


ISBN 10:   3030479366
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   29 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Background and introduction: how could anyone be against entrepreneurship?, Anders Örtenblad 2. Self-employment and entrepreneurship: not only productive but also unproductive and destructive, Dieter Bögenhold 3. Notes on a fetishist war machine, Daniel Ericsson 4. Keep the machine running: entrepreneurship as a practice of control in the neoliberal economy, Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen and Ann Starbæk Bager 5. Fetishizing the entrepreneurship, Frederik Hertel.- 6. Entrepreneurship ad absurdum, Anna-Maria Murtola 7. Against entrepreneurship: unveiling social inequalities for minority entrepreneurship, Kiran Trehan, Priyanka Vedi and Alex Kevill 8. The fairytale of the successful entrepreneur: reasons and remedies for the prevalent ideology of entrepreneurship, Fabiola H. Gerpott and Alfred Kieser 9. From entrepreneurship to eco-preneurship, Ove Jakobsen and Vivi M.L. Storsletten 10. Entrepreneurial insouciance (or imperiousness), the big risk shift and the entrepreneurship interregnum, Philip Cooke 11. The dark side of entrepreneurial passion: restraining employee innovative behaviour? Eeva Aromaa, Ulla Hytti and Satu Aaltonen 12. In defense of the comfort zone: against the hegemony of creative destruction, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera 13. Entrepreneurship addiction and the negative mental health consequences of entrepreneurial engagement among some entrepreneurs, April J. Spivack 14. Against irresponsible entrepreneurship: a dual perspective on the impact of entrepreneurship on firm survival, Denise Fleck 15. The dark side of entrepreneurship: the role of the dark side of personality, Bekir Emre Kurtulmuş

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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.    

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