Between a rock and a hard place’? The future of critical entrepreneurship research’

The title of my short input points to a critical impasse in which we currently find ourselves: On the one hand, it seems that critical research is becoming more acceptable in entrepreneurship journals, but this may come at the price of watering down the radicalness of one’s ideas and the political thrust of our agenda. On the other hand, there is the possibility of staying truthful to our critical commitments, while having to accept that this may prevent us from being heard by, – for lack of a better term, – ‘mainstream’ entrepreneurship scholars.
Given these two options, where do we currently stand?