Entrepreneurship ad absurdum

Anna-Maria Murtola ()
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Anna-Maria Murtola: Auckland University of Technology

Chapter 6 in Against Entrepreneurship, 2020, pp 93-110 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Entrepreneurship is no longer an activity reserved for a select few. Instead, the entrepreneurial imperative posits that everyone should model their lives on the imagined figure of the entrepreneur. This relentlessly optimistic discourse promoting the endless opportunities of entrepreneurship in reality hides the constraints on the kinds of opportunities identified and exploited in specific situations. This chapter highlights some of these constraints through an analysis of attempts by women to sell space on their skin for tattoo advertising. It argues for the importance of analyzing entrepreneurship taking into account realities of dependence and limited choice. There is reason to be against entrepreneurship when entrepreneurial discourse and practice obscure underlying asymmetries of power and privilege that limit the actual range of opportunities available to specific people.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-47937-4_6

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