Philosophical Reflexivity and Entrepreneurship Research

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.

Alain Fayolle is a Professor of entrepreneurship, the founder and Director of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre at EM Lyon Business School, France. Alain published thirty-five books and over one hundred articles. Stratos Ramoglou is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Southampton, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and his research interests include entrepreneurship, organization theory and philosophy of science. Mine Karatas-Ozkan is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Southampton Business School. Her research focuses on social and diversity dimensions of entrepreneurship. Katerina Nicolopoulou is a Senior Lecturer at Strathclyde Business School, UK. Her research focuses on social, sustainable and diversity-based forms of entrepreneurship as well as on the concept of cosmopolitanism as a disposition for developing entrepreneurship.

Introduction: Reflecting on our philosophical journey Stratos Ramoglou, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Alain Fayolle and Katerina Nicolopoulou Applying Philosophy to Entrepreneurship and the Social Sciences Russ McBride New partial theory in entrepreneurship: explanation, examination, exploitation and exemplification Richard J. Arend Social constructionism and entrepreneurial opportunity Luke Pittaway, Rachida Aissaoui and Joe Fox Serious realist philosophy and applied entrepreneurship Lee Martin and Nick Wilson Critical realism as a supporting philosophy for entrepreneurship and small business studies John Kitching The other reading: Reflections of postcolonial deconstruction for critical entrepreneurship studies Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen and Vesa Puhakka Cruel optimism: the stories of entrepreneurial attachments Natasha Slutskaya, Oliver Mallett and Janet Borgerson Critiquing and renewing the entrepreneurial imagination Neil A. Thompson Examining the contributions of Social Science to Entrepreneurship: the cases of Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism Katerina Nicolopoulou and Christine Samy A Unified Account of the Firm: Deontic Architecture Brian R. Gordon and Russ McBride Uncertainty under Entrepreneurship Dimo Dimov