Entrepreneurship in a Time of Social Justice Advocacy

This book offers a critique of social justice theory and its impact on entrepreneurship. It traces social justice’s deep roots in postmodernism by positioning it within new intellectual, social, and economic environments. It highlights underlying theoretical assumptions, with implications for boundary conditions. Science depends on assumptions and boundary conditions. Unfortunately, a glaring weakness in entrepreneurship research has been its general failure to identify these premises. No theory is universally applicable, so its assumptions and boundary conditions are what give it analytical power. They come from a theory's philosophy of science. However, even more rare than stating assumptions and boundary conditions is to discuss a study's philosophy. In fact, no known entrepreneurship research has discussed a study's philosophical orientation. This provocative work details postmodern grievances related to critical theory, their origins, and specifically how they impact entrepreneurship. It will challenge the current direction of entrepreneurship research and confront the general acceptance of the tenets of postmodernism among entrepreneurship scholars.James O. Fiet is the Brown-Forman Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of Louisville, USA. He founded both the entrepreneurship PhD program and the Institute for Entrepreneurial Research. He is in the top 1% of all entrepreneurship researchers world-wide with more than 63,000 research reads. According to Stanford University, he is in the top 2% of all scientists in the world across all disciplines. He was an editor for 10 years of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, which was the #2 ranked journal for all business disciplines. He published the most cited entrepreneurship article during the last 8 years. He has published the following theoretical treatises: The Systematic Search for Entrepreneurial Discoveries (2002); Prescriptive Entrepreneurship (2008); Time, Space and Entrepreneurship (2020); The Theoretical World of Entrepreneurship (2022); and, The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What Is Possible (2022). Coming soon is Entrepreneurship in a Time of Social Justice Advocacy, followed by Doctrinal Influences on Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Religions and How They Frame Entrepreneurial Options.