“Who is an entrepreneur?” is (still) the wrong question

Ramoglou, Stratos; Gartner, William B.; Tsang, Eric W. K.

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00168

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“…This theoretical canon has served to build entrepreneurship as an academically respectable discipline (Dimov et al, 2020;Low & MacMillan, 1988). However, it has been of growing concern that this has come at the price of losing touch with the ingenious practices that initially inspired the research (Johannisson, 2011;McMullen et al, 2020;Ramoglou et al, 2020). Hence, we ask: How can we become more practically relevant without losing theoretical relevance?…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since then, an impressive corpus has been constructed around questions of who entrepreneurs are, what they do, and why and how they do it. However, we argue that, in contemporary theorizing on entrepreneurship, there has been a marginalization, and even radicalization, of the social imagination that underlies entrepreneurship theory on the nature of economic and social development, the nature of the economy, and the role of the individual within it (Gartner, 2008;Lundmark et al, 2019;Ramoglou et al, 2020).…”

Section: Strengthening Undermining and Shaping Practices: Unpackingmentioning

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The Social Imaginary of Emancipation in Entrepreneurship

Laine

Kibler

2020

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This article contributes to the research agenda of emancipatory entrepreneurship by developing the understanding of emancipation as a social imaginary in entrepreneurship. In particular, we draw on fiction and philosophical hermeneutics to generate three ideal types of the social imaginary of emancipation in entrepreneurship theorizing. Building on our hermeneutic analysis, we introduce a framework that explains how entrepreneurship theorizing can strengthen, undermine, and shape emancipatory practices as well as the social imaginary of emancipation. We conclude our article by explicating and discussing the relevancy of emancipation in and for entrepreneurship theorizing across different social imaginaries and social practices.

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The Social Imaginary of Emancipation in Entrepreneurship

Laine

Kibler

2020

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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“…emerges, and Chaturvedi presents a picture of what the role of an entrepreneurship educator in India is, and how important this role is in the growing entrepreneurship ecosystem throughout the country. Interestingly, Chaturvedi's analysis may trigger our memory of the famous question in entrepreneurship research field, '"who is an entrepreneur" is the wrong question' (Gartner, 1988;Ramoglou et al, 2020). In a similar vein, entrepreneurship educators also need self-reflexivity to construct their identities when teaching future generations of entrepreneurs.…”

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Neck¹,

Liu²

2021

Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education

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Entrepreneurship has become an important, and even critical, topic for a multitude of stakeholders ranging from educators and policymakers to industry practitioners from around the world who are trying to navigate challenging and uncertain times (Liu et al., 2020). As a result, entrepreneurship education has emerged as an important rhetoric in the domains of contemporary higher education, driven primarily by the experience of the phenomenon in the practice world and the need for students across disciplines to develop the ability to think and act more entrepreneurially (Neck et al., 2019). The notion of entrepreneurship education research has become a legitimate academic field, evidenced by an increasingly vibrant and burgeoning literature (Nabi et al., 2017). However, the phenomenon-driven extant field of entrepreneurship education has led to theoretical fragmentation and lags progress in relation to the rapid development of mainstream entrepreneurship research (Neck and Corbett, 2018). There have been several books centring on entrepreneurship education (

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“…In the face of multiple recent crises, entrepreneurship's radical 'critical chorus' has converged in a direction of travel towards the local, the collaborative, the communitarian, the sustaining, and the replenishing of depleted peripheral places (Tedmanson et al 2012; see also Drakopoulou Dodd, Anderson, and Jack 2021;Ramoglou, Gartner, and Tsang 2020;Fayolle et al 2018;Welter and Baker 2020). It asks us to explore other ways of doing entrepreneurship -of being entrepreneurial -at the edges, to 'replace the heroism of high consumption for high growth with a folk hero of frugal production' (Drakopoulou Dodd, Anderson, and Jack 2021, 12).…”

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Crafting growth together

Dodd

Wilson

Karampela

et al. 2021

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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There is a re-positioning of entrepreneurship towards the sustaining, the frugal, the local, and the everyday. This poses challenges for peripheral policy work, especially around growth, at sectoral and regional levels. Through collaborative workshops with engaged craft brewing stakeholders, this study generated deep new insights into how diverse forms of value can come to be created, shared, stewarded, invested in, grown, given away, and held as a collective resource, in order to both sustain community, and build sectoral growth. As such, we highlight novel entrepreneurial practices and capitals which, taken together, can respond both to critical chorus demands for an urgent repositioning towards frugal sustaining folk enterprise, and yet also retain a strong sense of peripheral socio-economic progress implied by the growth agenda, and its policies.

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“Who is an entrepreneur?” is (still) the wrong question

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