Challenging Entrepreneurship Research

'Real-life entrepreneurs succeed by challenging dominant business models. Progress in entrepreneurship research should match this logic. This book offers many disruptive yet actionable ideas that entrepreneurship scholars can use to challenge dominant assumptions and to publish interesting entrepreneurship research.' - Carlo Salvato, Professor, Bocconi University, Italy

'Challenging Entrepreneurship Research is intentionally a mind-expanding book. It not only embraces and extends the consensus (or mainstream) lines of thought in entrepreneurship's mainstream, but also brings in the dissensus, non-mainstream, lines of thought. Together, the book is a thoughtful dialectic. I found myself constantly jumping back and forth in the book connecting and contrasting the ideas of the different authors, invariably returning new insights and thoughts about the process of entrepreneurship research in which we all share.' - Jerome Katz, Professor, Saint Louis University, USA

'Entrepreneurship research has undoubtedly come a long way over the past two decades both conceptually and empirically and now is an opportune time to take stock and question the direction of travel. This stimulating volume provides a number of insightful contributions that help point the way forward. Researchers increasingly need to engage with practice and policy, not only to ensure the relevance of entrepreneurship research but also to identify interesting research questions and this is an important message reinforced in this volume. As the contributions make clear, such engagement involves consideration of the dark side of entrepreneurship as a complement to the overwhelmingly positive perspectives that have previously dominated the agenda.' – Mike Wright, Professor, Imperial College London, UK

'Well-timed, this volume represents a much-needed contribution to a growing research literature that has taken as its task to present challenging entrepreneurship research that also challenges entrepreneurship research. This is an important contribution to a more reflexive, indeed entrepreneurial entrepreneurship research.' - Daniel Hjorth, Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

'Because entrepreneurship has grown and become legitimate there is a danger that scholars will "play it safe" and not pursue sufficiently interesting research. Challenging Entrepreneurship Research helps us to question our assumptions and broaden our thinking by offering chapters from different perspectives provoking thoughts about how to move the field forward.' - Dean A. Shepherd, David H. Jacobs Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Indiana University, USA