Philosophical reflexivity and entrepreneurship research / [edited by] Alain Fayolle, Stratos Ramoglou, Mine Karatas-Ozkan and Katerina Nicolopoulou.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: reflecting on our philosophical journey / Stratos Ramoglou, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Alain Fayolle and Katerina Nicolopoulou -- Applying philosophy to entrepreneurship and the social sciences / Russ McBride -- New partial theory in entrepreneurship: explanation, examination, exploitation and exemplification / Richard J. Arend -- Social constructionism and entrepreneurial opportunity / Luke Pittaway, Rachida Aissaoui and Joe Fox -- Serious realist philosophy and applied entrepreneurship / Lee Martin and Nick Wilson -- Critical realism as a supporting philosophy for entrepreneurship and small business studies / John Kitching -- The other reading : reflections of postcolonial deconstruction for critical entrepreneurship studies / Anna-Liisa Kaasila-Pakanen and Vesa Puhakka -- Cruel optimism : the stories of entrepreneurial attachments / Natasha Slutskaya, Oliver Mallett and Janet Borgerson -- Critiquing and renewing the entrepreneurial imagination / Neil A. Thompson -- Examining the contributions of social science to entrepreneurship : the cases of cosmopolitanism and orientalism / Katerina Nicolopoulou and Christine Samy -- A unified account of the firm: deontic architecture / Brian R. Gordon and Russ McBride -- Uncertainty under entrepreneurship / Dimo Dimov.