Social Entrepreneurship

Edited by Pascal Dey, Bern University of Applied Sciences and Chris Steyaert, Doctor in Psychology and Professor in Organizational Psychology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

'This book will surprise you! And it will keep surprising you chapter after chapter for its diversity, insight and wit. The book exemplifies the work of critique as a creative practice and illustrates the ways in which social entrepreneurship as a category of thought is instituted, and how it is ordered as a field of knowledge. The authors pay close attention to the intricate ways in which social entrepreneurship is enacted as a phenomenon that is brought into existence, is constantly changing and constitutes an ongoing social practice.' --Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy'Pascal Dey and Chris Steyaert have composed a conceptual assemblage that problematizes "social entrepreneurship" and opens up a space for transforming our understanding of what it means to engage in social transformation. The affirmative critique neither accepts what is given, nor simply rejects it. The chapters in Social Entrepreneurship instead invite us to explore the limits of our capitalist understanding of ''social entrepreneurship'' and inspire us to reinvent it as a space and practice of potential transformation in the context of democracy and our responsibilities in the Anthropocene.'--Richard Weiskopf, University of Innsbruck, Austria'This is a pioneering book for anyone who wants to make sense of what entrepreneurship is (not just social entrepreneurship) as a phenomenon and as a field of study. So, while the book is ostensibly about social entrepreneurship - all entrepreneurship is inherently social - and, therefore, while the book offers various insightful and critical assessments of social entrepreneurship (as myth, ideology, politic, power, enacted, participated, related and possible - just a few of the categories explored), it also garners enlightening discernment across all aspects of entrepreneurship, itself. A much needed reflection that would be very valuable for all entrepreneurship scholars.'--William B. Gartner, Babson College, US

• Contents:Acknowledgements1. The books on social entrepreneurship we edit, critique and imagine Chris Steyaert and Pascal DeyPart I Social Entrepreneurship, political representation and myth-busting 2. A methodological critique of the social enterprise growth myth Simon Teasdale, Fergus Lyon and Robyn Owen (Baldock)3. Nonprofit commercial revenue: A replacement for declining government grants and private contributions? Janelle A. Kerlin and Tom H. Pollak4. Bursting the bubble: The mythologies of many social enterprises and enterpri$ing nonprofits Raymond DartPart II Social entrepreneurship, ideology and power effects5. The tale of the veil: Unweaving Big Society and the social enterprise myth Chris Mason and Michael Moran6. Myth in social entrepreneurship research: An inquiry into rationalist, ideological and dialectic practices of demystification Pascal Dey and Chris Steyaert7. Social entrepreneurship: Mythological ‘doublethink’ Lew PerrenPart III Social entrepreneurship and its enactments8. ‘(It) is exactly what it was in me’ – The performativity of social entrepreneurshipStefanie Mauksch9. Of course, trust is not the whole story: Narratives of dancing with a critical friend in social enterprise-public sector collaborations Pam Seanor10. Social entrepreneurship: Performative enactments of compassion Karin BerglundPart IV Social entrepreneurship, participation and democracy11. Deliberative democracy in social entrepreneurship: A discourse ethics approach to participative processes of social change Trish Ruebottom12. Social entrepreneurship and democracy Angela M. Eikenberry13. Social entrepreneurship, democracy and political participation Denise M. HornPart V Social entrepreneurship, relationality and the possible14. Expanding the realm of the possible: Field theory and a relational framing of social entrepreneurship Victor J. Friedman, Israel Sykes and Markus Strauch15. Becoming possible in the anthropocene? Becoming-socialentrepreneurship as more-than-capitalist practiceMarta B. Calás, Seray Ergene, Linda Smircich16. New framings and practices of critical researchJenny CameronIndex