Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship questions the accepted norms and dominant assumptions of entrepreneurship scholarship. It explores how entrepreneurship study tends to privilege certain forms of economic action, while implying other more collective forms of organization and exchange are somehow problematic. Deconstructing assumptions an

1. Critical Entrepreneurship Studies – a Manifesto Caroline Essers, Pascal Dey, Deirdre Tedmanson and Karen VerduynSection 1: Contesting Neo-Liberal Aspects of Traditional Entrepreneurship Approaches 2. Social Entrepreneurs: Precious and Precarious Karin Berglund3. Social Enterprise and the Everydayness of Precarious Indigenous Cambodian Villagers: Challenging ethnocentric epistemologies Isaac Lyne4. Reasons to be Fearful: The ‘Google Model of Production’, entrepreneurship, corporate power, and the concentration of dispersed knowledge Gerard HanlonSection 2: Locating New Forms of Indigenous and Community-Based Entrepreneurship5. Emerging Entrepreneurship in South America Miguel Imas6. Challenging Leadership in Discourses of Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Australia Deirdre Tedmanson and Michelle Evans7. Feeding the City: The importance of the informal Warung restaurants for the urban economy in Indonesia Peter de Boer and Lothar SmithSection 3: Critiquing the Archetype of the White, Christian Entrepreneur 8. Injecting Reality into the Migrant Entrepreneurship Agenda Monder Ram, Trevor Jones and Maria Villares9. Bringing Strategy Back: Ethnic minority entrepreneurs’ construction of legitimacy by ‘fitting in’ and ‘standing out’ in the creative industries Annelies Thoelen and Patrizia Zanoni10. A Critical Reflection on Female Migrant Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands Karen Verduyn and Caroline EssersSection 4: Challenging the Gendered Sub-Text in Entrepreneurship11. Critically Evaluating Contemporary Entrepreneurship from a Feminist Perspective Susan Marlow and Haya Al-Dajani12. On Entrepreneurship and Empowerment: Postcolonial feminist interventions Banu Ozkazanc-Pan13. Bridging the Gap Between Resistance

This is an excellent book. Critical studies are gaining ground in the entrepreneurship field; and this edited volume provides a much needed overview that challenges our thinking on what constitutes entrepreneurship and why. The chapters highlight the value of critically reviewing well-known phenomena such as minority, ethnic, indigenous entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, gender and entrepreneurship. The editors have done a superb job in assembling such knowledgeable contributors. A must read for all of us interested in the contribution critical perspectives can make to entrepreneurship research. Friederike Welter, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn, and University of Siegen, Germany.The coming of Essers, Dey, Tedmanson and Verduyn’s excellent collection is in itself a manifesto for the strength of critical entrepreneurship studies. As contributions to this field, each and every chapter voices entrepreneurship as a social change activity capable of speaking back, explicitly or implicitly, to what the 'entrepreneur' of neoliberalism attempts to conceal. At the same time, each chapter articulates a whole other world of possibilities. A 'must read' to act upon!Marta B. Calás, Professor of Organization Studies and International Management, University of Massachusetts, USAAdopting a proactive stance for highlighting new critiques and contexts of entrepreneurship, this thought-provoking collection of critical narratives discusses entrepreneurship as a social change activity. With an interest in non-traditional entrepreneurial activities, this authoritative volume advances critical scholarship and fosters a new agenda for entrepreneurship research in the coming decade.Denise Fletcher, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg