7The other reading

Reflections of postcolonial deconstruction for critical entrepreneurship studies

Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen and Vesa Puhakka

Introduction

Critically oriented entrepreneurship studies have proliferated in recent years, yielding different and inspiring implications for entrepreneurial as well as academic subjectivity, practice, and questions of power and politics within the field. In accordance with this development, we set out in this chapter to analyze the role of postcolonial deconstruction for entrepreneurship research through considering our own position as researchers in a recent study on micro-entrepreneuring within the context of development aid. On this basis, we wish to explicate the intertwining of theorizing, empirical ...

Get Philosophical Reflexivity and Entrepreneurship Research now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.