Critical Reflections on Social Entrepreneurship

Learning goals

Upon completing this chapter, you should be able to accomplish the following:

Understand that the euphoria surrounding social entrepreneurship marks a severe hindrance for the advancement of knowledge.

Comprehend that critique represents an affirmative means for extending the knowledge of social entrepreneurship beyond the confines imposed by common sense and ideology.

Recognize the difference inherent in critical approaches of social entrepreneurship.

Understand the distinct paradigmatic and theoretical contribution each type of critique makes to the field of social entrepreneurship.

Acknowledge that the critique of social entrepreneurship is never completed and that retaining the imaginative and radical potential of social entrepreneurship presupposes institutionalising critique as an on-going task.

Draw from linguistic approaches to get immersed in critically reflecting iconic texts of social entrepreneurship.