Atkinson, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2179-1652 (2020) Working Paper: From growing pains to wrangling unicorns-Science fictioning futures narratives of an emergent, indeterminate entrepreneurship. Working Paper. Researchgate. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This conceptual paper is inspired by a critical and counterfactual application of science fiction. Although both science fiction and counterfactuals in futures studies are not uncommon, this paper sets out a theoretical position for a critical perspective on their use. A critical counterfactuals method is proposed, in which a device of fictional news headlines provides a set of counterfactual vignettes-small scenes from the future-used to explore the emergence of an extant concept of entrepreneurship. In order to assign relative truth values to science fiction vignettes, a truth-table is used to examine coherence between the counterfactuals and a range of projected future moments, based on three dimensions of an uncertain future history. This approach is argued as overcoming several limitations of fictional scenarios/vignettes in counterfactual analysis, including the indeterminacy intuition: the accepted wisdom that impossible or wholly implausible scenarios are unfeasible. In reporting on an initial study, the paper draws conjectures about a future entrepreneurship, highlighting the method's potential in delivering new insights into how future education and support policies might better develop entrepreneurship for a sustainable economy.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Status:	Unpublished
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34692.55688
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
School/Department:	York Business School
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/6170

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