Entrepreneurship and the rest: The missing debate

In this article, we seek to open a debate within entrepreneurship scholarship around a prevailing reductionist view when it comes to non-western or alternative contexts. We argue it is incapable of capturing behavioral differences across contexts without making ethnocentric, narrow and simplified th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Business Venturing Insights Jg. 9; S. 100 - 106
Hauptverfasser: Muñoz, Pablo, Kimmitt, Jonathan
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier Inc 01.06.2018
Schlagworte:
Cultural relativism
Development
Entrepreneurship
Poverty
Research agenda
Sociology of emergences
Development
Research agenda
Sociology of emergences
Poverty
Entrepreneurship
Cultural relativism
ISSN:2352-6734, 2352-6734
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Zusammenfassung:In this article, we seek to open a debate within entrepreneurship scholarship around a prevailing reductionist view when it comes to non-western or alternative contexts. We argue it is incapable of capturing behavioral differences across contexts without making ethnocentric, narrow and simplified theoretical assumptions about ‘the rest’. Drawing on the sociology of absences, we explain why the concept of entrepreneurship, as it relates to development, has remained captive and constrained by western economic and cultural assumptions, which has been boosted by a worrying absence of self-criticism. This is problematic but equally full of missing opportunities. Drawing from cultural relativism and the sociology of emergences, in this paper we propose a refreshed agenda for advancing research at the intersection of entrepreneurship and development, marked by the possibility of alternative futures and the potency of hidden causes. •Theoretical assumptions about ‘the rest’ in entrepreneurship scholarship remain ethnocentric, narrow and simplified.•The field remains captive and constrained by western economic and cultural assumptions.•We problematize this issue by means of sociology of absences.•We reconceptualize the space by means of cultural relativism and sociology of emergences.•We propose a refreshed agenda for advancing research at the intersection of entrepreneurship and development.
ISSN:2352-6734
2352-6734
DOI:10.1016/j.jbvi.2018.03.003