%0 Journal Article
%T Critical performativity and the small firm: Challenges and prospects
%A Paul Edwards
%J International Small Business Journal
%@ 1741-2870
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0266242617747953
%X The idea of engaging directly with management practice while retaining a strongly critical social science stance has become popular under the banner of critical performativity. This idea has yet to be applied to small firms, and it also needs specification: as usually stated, it lacks grounds within science to define with whom to engage and with what goals. In total, three themes are addressed: the nature of a ¡®radical pluralist¡¯ view of engagement, the distinct challenges in a small firm context and a set of three illustrations of possible lines of engagement. Engagement is both desirable and feasible, though large challenges remain, notably the demands of small-firm owners and the requirements of close engagement over a period of time
%K critical social science
%K engaged scholarship
%K family firm
%K modernising firm
%K performativity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0266242617747953