| The Ethics of Exploring Entrepreneurship Beyond the Boundaries |
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JSBE subscribers and CCSBE-CCPME members can view and download full articles (PDF format) in the online Article Library or use the link at the bottom of the abstract to view the specific article (must be logged in). Subscription Options. Gerard McElwee, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United KingdomMuch of the mainstream academic literature in the entrepreneurship literature does not explore those areas of enterprising activity which lie outside of the “conventional”—those topic areas of “business life cycle,” “entrepreneurial motivation,” “networking,” and so forth. There are however, some interesting exceptions as the authors in this special issue demonstrate as they explore the “other,” the “non-conventional” and entrepreneurial Outsiders. Significantly, other academic discipline areas, notably within the social sciences: Sociology, Criminology and Economics have a history of engaging with marginal entrepreneurs or what Smith (2007) has named entrepreneurship at the margins. However, these marginal entrepreneurs have not been studied as entrepreneurs and of course herein lays an interesting paradox. If we study marginal entrepreneurs as entrepreneurs we give them legitimacy. Writing about such actors does not necessarily create legitimacy to their acts or consequences of their acts. What it does is develop nuanced understandings of alternative forms of entrepreneurship. Indeed Mark Casson as long ago as 1982 wrote of criminality, war and revolution as alternative entrepreneurships.  The Ethics of Exploring Entrepreneurship Beyond the Boundaries
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