Book description
This book adopts a reflexive approach to entrepreneurship research, challenging readers to question their approaches and assumptions and explicitly defend them against competing alternatives. Building on this critical reflection, this book provides space for philosophical reflexivity in the conduct and publication of scholarly enquiry and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students in all aspect of entrepreneurship study.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- 1 Introduction: reflecting on our philosophical journey
- 2 Applying philosophy to entrepreneurship and the social sciences
- 3 New partial theory in entrepreneurship: explanation, examination, exploitation and exemplification
- 4 Social constructionism and entrepreneurial opportunity
- 5 Serious realist philosophy and applied entrepreneurship
- 6 Critical realism as a supporting philosophy for entrepreneurship and small business studies
- 7 The other reading: reflections of postcolonial deconstruction for critical entrepreneurship studies
- 8 Cruel optimism: the stories of entrepreneurial attachments
- 9 Critiquing and renewing the entrepreneurial imagination
- 10 Examining the contributions of social science to entrepreneurship: the cases of cosmopolitanism and orientalism
- 11 A unified account of the firm: deontic architecture
- 12 Uncertainty under entrepreneurship
- Index
Product information
- Title: Philosophical Reflexivity and Entrepreneurship Research
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2018
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317232049
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