Contents: Acknowledgements -- 1. The books on social entrepreneurship we edit, critique and imagine / Chris Steyaert and Pascal Dey -- Part I Social Entrepreneurship, political representation and myth-busting -- 2. A methodological critique of the social enterprise growth myth / Simon Teasdale,...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper critiques and re-imagines current research approaches to the field of social entrepreneurship. Taking a theoretical view of research as ‘enactment’, this paper explores research as a constitutive act and explores a range of ways of relating with and constructing the...

Purpose – Responding to recent pleas both to critically analyze and to conceptually advance social entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the political “unconscious” operates in the narration of social entrepreneurship and how it poses a limit to alternative forms of...