RT Article
T1 Unshackling imagination: how philosophical pragmatism can liberate entrepreneurial decision-making
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 181
IS 2
SP 301
OP 316
A1 McVea, John F.
A1 Dew, Nicholas
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1824167857
AB Despite the evident importance of imagination in both ethical decision-making and entrepreneurship, significant gaps remain in our understanding of its actual role in these processes. As a result, scholars have called for a deeper understanding of how imagination impacts value creation in society and how this critical human faculty might more profoundly connect our theories of ethics and business decision-making. In this paper, we attempt to fill one of these gaps by scrutinizing the underlying philosophical foundations of imagination and applying them to the challenges facing entrepreneurs attempting to create new value in an increasingly unpredictable and kaleidic world. Accordingly, we apply a view of imagination developed by the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey to the radically subjective economic philosophy of G.L.S Shackle. As a result, we develop a concept of imagination which we believe can be both significant and hopeful for research at the intersection of business ethics and new value creation.
K1 Entrepreneurship
K1 Imagination
K1 Pragmatism
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-021-04967-1