The Critique of Management

5 Management as Epistemic Insufficient Entrepreneurship

DOI: 10.4324/9781003231875-5

In chapter 1, we critically reflected on management as entrepreneurial action (Section 7). The very nature of grand challenges like global warming turned out to challenge the win-win paradigm of sustainable entrepreneurial action and shows a fundamental tension between the call for sustainable development and entrepreneurial action. This raised the question of what implications the wickedness of the grand challenges of our time and our epistemic insufficiency to manage these challenges have for our conceptualization of management as entrepreneurial action. In this chapter, we take this contested area of management as a point of departure to philosophically ...