Contents

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1 Introduction: reflecting on our philosophical journey

STRATOS RAMOGLOU, MINE KARATAS-OZKAN AND ALAIN FAYOLLE

2 Applying philosophy to entrepreneurship and the social sciences

RUSS McBRIDE

3 New partial theory in entrepreneurship: explanation, examination, exploitation and exemplification

RICHARD J. AREND

4 Social constructionism and entrepreneurial opportunity

LUKE PITTAWAY, RACHIDA AÏSSAOUI AND JOE FOX

5 Serious realist philosophy and applied entrepreneurship

LEE MARTIN AND NICK WILSON

6 Critical realism as a supporting philosophy for entrepreneurship and small business studies

JOHN KITCHING

7 The other reading: reflections of postcolonial deconstruction for critical entrepreneurship studies

ANNA-LIISA KAASILA-PAKANEN AND VESA PUHAKKA

8 Cruel optimism: the stories of entrepreneurial attachments

NATASHA SLUTSKAYA, OLIVER MALLETT AND JANET BORGERSON

9 Critiquing and renewing the entrepreneurial imagination

NEIL A. THOMPSON

10 Examining the contributions of social science to entrepreneurship: the cases of cosmopolitanism and orientalism

KATERINA NICOLOPOULOU AND CHRISTINE SAMY

11 A unified account of the firm: deontic architecture

BRIAN R. GORDON AND RUSS McBRIDE

12 Uncertainty under entrepreneurship

DIMO DIMOV

Index