Organizational Entrepreneurship, Politics and the Political

Entrepreneurship is the creation of new organizations, but it is often associated with the politics of homo economicus agents living a measured life in competition. This book explores the potential of entrepreneurship to resist the economic and ethical demands of the enterprise and to disrupt and disturb the established order. It offers a new conceptual repertoire and vocabulary that reconnects entrepreneurship studies with the socio-political dimensions of organization-creation, opening up multiple possibilities for understanding and questioning the meanings and effects of entrepreneurship in society.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 118 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Entrepreneurship, as the birth of novel organizations, has garnered widespread appeal across individuals and governments worldwide. Regrettably, it is often narrowly linked to the concept of enterprise, perpetuating a pervasive politics of homo economicus agents leading measured lives in competition-driven individuality. To fully unlock the potential of entrepreneurship, it is crucial to detach it from the politics of enterprise and delve into its capacity to challenge the economic and ethical demands of the enterprise to be relentlessly innovative. Instead, entrepreneurship should strive to disrupt and disturb the established order, offering a means to declassify existing structures and institutions, de-normalize practices, and provoke new ways of thinking and sensemaking.

The chapters in this book invite readers to reexamine fundamental concepts in entrepreneurship studies through a political lens. By approaching opportunity, motivation, identity, experimentation, creative destruction, and experimentation through this prism, we gain a fresh perspective on these topics. This book provides a novel conceptual framework and vocabulary that reconnects entrepreneurship studies with the socio-political dimensions of organization creation, opening up a multitude of possibilities for understanding and interrogating the meanings and consequences of entrepreneurship in society.

Combining philosophical reflections with organizational and processual perspectives, this book appeals to academics, students, and researchers in the fields of business, social, and political entrepreneurship, organization studies, and management. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Entrepreneurship and Regional Development journal.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367628611