Against Entrepreneurship

This book explores whether there is reason to be against entrepreneurship. Just like literature on the darker sides of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, the book is an answer to the one-sided, overly positive and uncritical image of entrepreneurship. The "twist" in this book, in comparison with literature on dark sides of entrepreneurship, is to explore beingagainstentrepreneurship. From various perspectives such as lexical semantics, Marxism, philosophy of science and psychology, the contributors contemplate on why there may be reason to be against entrepreneurship discourse as well as entrepreneurship practice. Some chapters are based on first-hand empirical data, others are conceptual. The main overall conclusion is that there are some strong arguments for being against entrepreneurshipdiscourse, as well as for being against certainaspectsof entrepreneurshippractice. Before it is reasonable to be against entrepreneurship practicein total, a convincing and practicable alternative needs to be developed.This book will be valuable reading forentrepreneurshipscholars, as well as academics working in the fields ofbusiness ethics, (critical) management, andinternational business.