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

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  • Weiss, Tim
  • Eberhart, Robert
    • Other Affiliation: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Lounsbury, Michael
    • Other Affiliation: University of Alberta Alberta School of Business, Edmonton, Canada
  • Nelson, Andrew
    • Other Affiliation: University of Oregon Charles H Lundquist College of Business, Eugene, OR, USA
  • Rindova, Violina
    • Other Affiliation: USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Meyer, John
    • Other Affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
  • Bromley, Patricia
    • Other Affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
  • Atkins, Rachel
    • Other Affiliation: St John's University, New York, NY, USA
  • Ruebottom, Trish
    • Other Affiliation: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • Jennings, Jennifer
    • Other Affiliation: University of Alberta Alberta School of Business, Edmonton, Canada
  • Jennings, Dev
    • Other Affiliation: University of Alberta Alberta School of Business, Edmonton, Canada
  • Toubiana, Madeline
  • Shantz, Angelique Slade
    • Other Affiliation: University of Alberta Alberta School of Business, Edmonton, Canada
  • Khorasani, Niki
    • Other Affiliation: University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Wadhwani, Daniel
    • Other Affiliation: USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Tucker, Hannah
    • Other Affiliation: Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
  • Kirsch, David
    • Other Affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park Robert H Smith School of Business, College Park, MD, USA
  • Goldfarb, Brent
    • Other Affiliation: University of Maryland at College Park Robert H Smith School of Business, College Park, MD, USA
  • Aldrich, Howard
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Aldrich, Daniel
    • Other Affiliation: Northeastern University College of Social Science and Humanities, Boston, MA, USA
Abstract
  • 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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  • Journal of Management Inquiry
Journal volume
  • 32
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  • 4
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  • 251
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  • 277
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  • 1056-4926
  • 1552-6542
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  • 2023
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  • SAGE Publications

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