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Introduction

In: Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Paradox

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  • Simon Adderley

    (Oxford Brookes University, Business School)

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Entrepreneurship has long captured the human imaginationImagination. In popular culture, the entrepreneur is portrayed as a fearless innovator, a risk-taker, a visionary capable of bending the future to their will. Yet beneath the mythology lies a deeper, more complex reality—one shaped not by certainty or heroism, but by the continual navigation of opposing forces. To be an entrepreneur is to live within tensionsTensions: to hope and doubt, to persevere and adapt, to act swiftly and yet reflect deeply. These are not contradictions to overcome but paradoxes to inhabit—enduring, generative tensionsTensions that define the entrepreneurial experience far more truthfully than the triumphalist narratives we so often hear.

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  • Simon Adderley, 2026. "Introduction," Springer Books, in: Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Paradox, chapter 0, pages 1-3, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-032-06239-0_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-06239-0_1
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