Critical perspectives of entrepreneurship have gained increasing traction over the last two decades. The transformative potential of critical research resides in challenging some of entrepreneurship research's epistemological, ontological and theoretical assumptions, with a view to offering a range of alternatives. Critical research in entrepreneurship has remained fragmented, however, due to its heterogeneous theoretical lineages and compartmentalized and niche interests. Addressing this situation, our objective is to intensify the space of critique in entrepreneurship research by offering a theoretically informed typology that delineates different manifestations of ‘criticalness’. Our overarching contribution is to advance a typology distinguishing four ideal types of critical entrepreneurship research based on evaluative emphases (referred to as ‘valence’) and the meta-theoretical assumptions informing its critical operation (called ‘paradigmatic orientation’). By demonstrating the variegated political, ethical and ideological interests and preoccupations that critical studies serve within different management sub-disciplines, the typology provides a conceptual vocabulary for making sense of and synthesizing critical perspectives across scholarly boundaries. Also, it helps to reposition understandings of critique as gestures of negativity by stimulating a greater appreciation of the generative potential of critique and the theoretical and philosophical possibilities that this can bring to our scholarly community.

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批判性研究与创业：跨学科的概念类型学

在过去的二十年里，创业的批判观点越来越受到关注。批判性研究的变革潜力在于挑战一些创业研究的认识论、本体论和理论假设，以期提供一系列替代方案。然而，由于其异质的理论谱系和分割的利基兴趣，对创业的批判性研究仍然是零散的。针对这种情况，我们的目标是通过提供一种描述“批判性”不同表现形式的理论知识类型学来加强创业研究中的批判空间。我们的首要贡献是推进一种类型学，根据评估重点（称为“效价”）和告知其关键操作的元理论假设（称为“范式取向”）区分四种理想类型的批判性创业研究。通过展示批判性研究在不同管理子学科中所服务的多样化的政治、伦理和意识形态兴趣和关注点，类型学提供了一个概念词汇表，用于理解和综合跨越学术界限的批判性观点。此外，它有助于通过激发人们对批判的生成潜力以及这可以为我们的学术界带来的理论和哲学可能性的更大认识，将批判的理解重新定位为消极的姿态。