Keep the machine running: Entrepreneurship as practice of control in the neoliberal economy

Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen; Ann Starbæk Bager

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47937-4_4

Keep the machine running: Entrepreneurship as practice of control in the neoliberal economy

Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Ann Starbæk Bager

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The argument here against entrepreneurship discourse is that it is used for transforming environmental and social problems into new market opportunities and to deregulate and cut back on support for people in precarious positions. We argue that these transformations destroy or promote unjust modes of entrepreneurship. Furthermore, entrepreneurship is an important weapon for capitalism to outsource and deny responsibility for the consequences of its actions. We show how this tendency operates through two stories about entrepreneurship. The first story is from a discourse concerning plastic pollution. In this story, entrepreneurship is presented as the solution to the problem concerning plastic pollution. The second story is about immigrants where exposed citizens are expected to find their entrepreneurial spirit and become self-sufficient within a hostile institutional system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Against Entrepreneurship : A Critical Examination
Editors	Anders Ragnar Örtenblad
Number of pages	20
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	1 Dec 2020
Pages	57-76
Chapter	4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-47936-7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-47937-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47937-4_4
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2020

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Keep the machine running: Entrepreneurship as practice of control in the neoliberal economy. / Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg ; Bager, Ann Starbæk.
Against Entrepreneurship : A Critical Examination. ed. / Anders Ragnar Örtenblad. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 57-76.

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