Entrepreneurialism and Society: An Introduction

Eberhart, Robert; Aldrich, Howard E.; Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.

doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20220000081001

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“…We are definitely not alone in this regard. Other scholars, including those within this curated article (Meyer & Bromley, in this article; Wadhwani & Tucker, in this article), have started to question whether entrepreneurship can serve as the Holy Grail for solving grand, societal-level challenges (Bruton et al, 2021;Eberhart et al, 2022a). Without wishing to diminish the importance of that critique, our goal is to raise concerns that are "closer to home," that is, concerns about the unbalanced imagery pertaining to entrepreneurship and the family.…”

Section: Jennifer Jennings and Dev Jenningsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…This belief has become embedded as a universal belief in entrepreneurship because it serves the interests of society. In a recent Research on the Sociology of Organizations volume, we described the confluence of entrepreneurial attributes with neoliberal political theories to frame social action and outcomes (Bromley et al, 2022;Eberhart et al, 2022a;see Meyer & Bromley, in this article;Vogel, 2022). This analysis highlights how entrepreneurialism drives an acceptance of inequality because it convinces the successful that they deserve their gains through individual effort, while it convinces unsuccessful individuals that they are appropriately outside of organizations free to pursue an "entrepreneurial career" of contract work and/or a series of entrepreneurial attempts (Schor, 2021).…”

Section: Robert Eberhartmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If the claims reflected obvious changes in society, then there would be no explanatory problem. However, such links are by no means clearand outsized devotion to entrepreneurship may have a darker side (Eberhart et al, 2022a).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship As Arational Exuberancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The critiques of "entrepreneurialism" (Brockling, 2015;Eberhart et al, 2022a;Waterhouse, 2024) have all pointed to a root problem in the contemporary academic and public discourse about entrepreneurship: its weakness as political theory. Imagine using some of the basic conceptual claims of entrepreneurship discourse in a political theory class, and the problem we are talking about should become clear.…”

Section: Daniel Wadhwani and Hannah Tuckermentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations

Weiss,

Eberhart,

Lounsbury

et al. 2023

Journal of Management Inquiry

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A rapidly growing research stream examines the social effects of entrepreneurship on society. This research assesses the rise of entrepreneurship as a dominant theme in society and studies how entrepreneurship contributes to the production and acceptance of socio-economic inequality regimes, social problems, class and power struggles, and systemic inequities. In this article, scholars present new perspectives on an organizational sociology-inspired research agenda of entrepreneurial capitalism and detail the potential remedies to bound the unfettered expansion of a narrow conception of entrepreneurship. Taken together, the essays put forward four central provocations: 1) reform the study and pedagogy of entrepreneurship by bringing in the humanities; 2) examine entrepreneurship as a cultural phenomenon shaping society; 3) go beyond the dominant biases in entrepreneurship research and pedagogy; and 4) explore alternative models to entrepreneurial capitalism. More scholarly work scrutinizing the entrepreneurship–society nexus is urgently needed, and these essays provide generative arguments toward further developing this research agenda.

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The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations

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Eberhart,

Lounsbury

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“…Pacheco et al, 2014). Broadening out, this research might consider how entrepreneurial activity that seeks to address social or environmental aims can indirectly have a positive or negative effect on legitimizing new societal beliefs, norms, and logics (Eberhart et al, 2022).…”

Section: How Can the Entrepreneurship Field Sharpen Its Identity?mentioning

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The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research

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York²,

Waldron

2022

Strategic Organization

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In this essay, we argue that it is folly to stake the legitimacy and value of entrepreneurship research on the uniqueness of its theory. A better path is to orient around questions where we are uniquely positioned to create useful and important knowledge. To this end, we anchor on Venkataraman’s (1997) seminal definition and argue that entrepreneurship research should focus on understanding the outcomes of venture creation not just for founders, but also for other stakeholders and society as a whole. Moreover, we argue that generating robust insight into these questions requires contributions from multiple perspectives, and this makes our field’s theoretical diversity a great, and under-appreciated asset. Drawing on the metaphor of “borderlands,” we argue that embracing and leveraging diversity can help to address important social and environmental problems, while also laying a foundation for the unique identity so long sought by members of our field.

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The Other Organization: Heterotopia, Management, and Entrepreneurship

Champenois,

Drakopoulou Dodd,

Hjorth

et al. 2024

Journal of Management Inquiry

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Organizations are viewed as ordered places that legitimizes the hand that holds back, and that formalizes structured, institutionalized ways of saying and doing. Against this backdrop, we want to see the more recent attention to the entrepreneurial as a reason to conceptualize the new organization that emerges from within the existing organization as the “other organization,” accomplished through heterotopia. We propose that such creation of organization, the process of entrepreneurial emergence, can be thought of as part of organizations: organization entails both the already organized and the emergent; and organization-creation efforts are tactically exploring the cracks, the interstices, of the already organized. The “other organization” is actualized within the heterotopic and ephemeral space opened by such efforts. Bringing heterotopic/heterochronic space-time back into the study of organizations requires that we immerse ourselves in the spaces of resistance, emergence and play. This essay—hopefully, also playfully—does that.

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Entrepreneurialism and Society: An Introduction

Cited by 3 publications

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The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations

The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations

The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research

The Other Organization: Heterotopia, Management, and Entrepreneurship

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