• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations
  • Contributor: Weiss, Tim; Eberhart, Robert; Lounsbury, Michael; Nelson, Andrew; Rindova, Violina; Meyer, John; Bromley, Patricia; Atkins, Rachel; Ruebottom, Trish; Jennings, Jennifer; Jennings, Dev; Toubiana, Madeline; Shantz, Angelique Slade; Khorasani, Niki; Wadhwani, Daniel; Tucker, Hannah; Kirsch, David; Goldfarb, Brent; Aldrich, Howard; Aldrich, Daniel
  • imprint: SAGE Publications, 2023
  • Published in: Journal of Management Inquiry
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/10564926231181555
  • ISSN: 1056-4926; 1552-6542
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  • Description: <jats:p> 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. </jats:p>