Untrepreneurship : undoing the myth of entrepreneurship as a development apparatus

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dc.contributor.author Smit, Maria
dc.contributor.author Pretorius, Marius
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-27T10:27:23Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-27T10:27:23Z
dc.date.issued 2020-12
dc.description.abstract The current theoretical framing of entrepreneurship includes several diverse phenomena under the same conceptual umbrella, yet the terms are often conflated and used interchangeably. Based on the assumption that anything included under this conceptual umbrella contributes to economic development and job creation, entrepreneurship has become appropriated as a development tool in the Global South, where poverty and unemployment are rife. This study introduces the term ‘entrepreneurship as a development apparatus’ (EDA) that is defined as the implementation of entrepreneurship support interventions (such as training, incubation and funding) in economically marginalised communities, based on the assumption that these interventions lead to economic development and job creation. EDA is then taken out from under the conceptual entrepreneurship umbrella, and placed in a postdevelopment theory context, showing that insight can be gained when the critical debate on entrepreneurship is moved beyond the constraints of the mainstream entrepreneurship paradigm. Drawing from the development debate this article argues that the current theoretical entrepreneurship paradigm has proven unable to provide answers to the failure of EDA, and thus calls for the rejection of the entire notion of EDA as a form of entrepreneurship. en_ZA
dc.description.department Business Management en_ZA
dc.description.librarian pm2021 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://ajobe.journals.ac.za/pub en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Smit, M. & Pretorius, M. 2020, 'Untrepreneurship: undoing the myth of entrepreneurship as a development apparatus' , African Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 62-81. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 1817-7417 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 0976-3600 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.15249/14-1-273
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80133
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Medknow Publications en_ZA
dc.rights © 2020 [author et al]. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. en_ZA
dc.subject Critical management studies en_ZA
dc.subject Entrepreneurship en_ZA
dc.subject Development en_ZA
dc.subject Postdevelopment en_ZA
dc.subject Untrepreneurship en_ZA
dc.subject Entrepreneurship as a development apparatus (EDA) en_ZA
dc.title Untrepreneurship : undoing the myth of entrepreneurship as a development apparatus en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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