Against Entrepreneurship -- Foreword -- References -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Background and Introduction: How Could Anyone Be Against Entrepreneurship? -- "Against" as a Twist -- An Outline of the Remainder of the Book -- For the Future -- References -- 2: Self-employment and Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive or Destructive? -- Introduction -- Critical Discussion of the Term Entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurship between Being Productive, Unproductive and Destructive -- Self-employment and Entrepreneurship: A Difficult Interaction -- Brief Lessons -- References -- 3: Notes on a Fetishist War Machine -- Introduction -- On Reification and Anthropomorphism -- The Rise and Fall of Boo.com -- The Secret of the War Machine -- References -- 4: Keep the Machine Running: Entrepreneurship as a Practice of Control in the Neoliberal Economy -- Introduction -- What Is Entrepreneurship and Why Is There a Focus on Entrepreneurship? -- Entrepreneurship as a Response to Plastic Pollution -- Municipalities Engaging People in Liminal Situations into Becoming Entrepreneurs -- The Workshop of the Future -- Conclusions -- References -- 5: Fetishizing the Entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- The Content of the Narrative -- The Old Man's Tale -- Sensus Communis -- Cosmology -- The Replicated Fetishism -- References -- 6: Entrepreneurship ad absurdum -- Introduction: Skin for Sale -- The Entrepreneurial Imperative -- The Entrepreneur as Neoliberal Subject -- Tattoo Advertising as Entrepreneurial Opportunity -- Refusing the Entrepreneurial Imperative -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 7: Against Entrepreneurship: Unveiling Social Inequalities for Minority Entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- Against Entrepreneurship: An Institutional Perspective -- Against Entrepreneurship: Unveiling Inequalities.

Self-employment and Entrepreneurship -- The Darker Side of Entrepreneurship -- Thriving or Surviving -- Conclusions -- References -- 8: The Fairytale of the Successful Entrepreneur: Reasons and Remedies for the Prevalent Ideology of Entrepreneurship -- A Never-Ending Story: Defining the Successful Entrepreneur -- Critical Perspectives on the "Entrepreneurial Ideology" -- The Futile Search for Psychological Traits That Make Successful Entrepreneurs -- How-to Guides for Those Who Want to Become Entrepreneurs -- The Entrepreneurial Team as a Remedy? -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: From Entrepreneurship to Eco-preneurship -- Introduction -- Philosophy of Science -- Entrepreneurship Is Coupled to a Mechanistic Worldview -- Eco-preneurship Is Coupled to Ecological Economics -- Comparison Between Entre- and Eco-preneurship -- Against Entrepreneurship Escalates the Need for Implementing Eco-preneurship -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- 10: Entrepreneurial Insouciance (or Imperiousness), the Big Risk Shift and the Entrepreneurship Interregnum -- Introduction -- Deregulation, Outsourcing, Globalization -- Against Antepreneurship -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 11: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurial Passion: Restraining Employee Innovative Behaviour? -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Entrepreneurial Passion and Entrepreneurial Management Behaviour -- Employee Innovative Behaviour -- The Case Company -- Methodology, Data Collection and Analysis -- Results -- The Owner-manager as the Leading Innovator of the Firm -- The Owner-manager as the Leading Decision Maker of the Firm -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- 12: In Defense of the Comfort Zone: Against the Hegemony of Creative Destruction -- Creative Destruction as Permanent (Dis)order -- Method -- Comfort Zone Creativity -- Against Entrepreneurial Hegemony.

References -- 13: Entrepreneurship Addiction and the Negative Mental Health Consequences of Entrepreneurial Engagement Among Some Entrepreneurs -- Introduction -- The Historically Positive Framing -- The Need for a Balanced Perspective -- The Extension to the Entrepreneurial Individual -- Entrepreneurship Addiction -- Beyond the Experience, Today's Contextual Influences -- Prevalence and Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- 14: Against Irresponsible Entrepreneurship: A Dual Perspective on the Impact of Entrepreneurship on Firm Survival -- Introduction -- A Dualistic Perspective of Entrepreneurship -- Three Requirements for Organizational Survival -- Renewal (Embracing Novelty and Promoting Organizational Renewal) -- Integrity (Developing and Preserving Organizational Integrity) -- Slack (Producing and Productively Using Organizational Slack) -- Conclusion -- References -- 15: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship: The Role of the Dark Side of Personality -- Introduction -- The Dark Side of Personality Traits -- The Dark Side of Leadership -- Dark Personality Traits and Entrepreneurship -- Conclusion -- References -- Afterword: What Does it Mean to be Against Entrepreneurship? From Antagonistic to Agonistic Critique -- Introduction -- Critique 1.0: Against Entrepreneurship as Antagonistic Opposition -- Critique 2.0: Against Entrepreneurship as Agonistic Engagement -- Coda -- References -- Index.

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