Reimagining entrepreneurship education in the Anthropocene. A critical posthuman practice approach;
: Verduijn, Karen; Hytti, Ulla; Lage Arias, Serxia
Publisher: Elsevier
: 2026
Journal of Business Venturing Insights
: e00653
: 26
: 2352-6734
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2026.e00653
: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352673426000624?via%3Dihub
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/526837413
As entrepreneurship education (EE) faces mounting pressure to respond to the socio-ecological polycrisis of the Anthropocene, prevailing human-centred, business growth-oriented pedagogies appear increasingly insufficient. This conceptual manuscript advances a critical posthuman practice approach to entrepreneurship education that foregrounds multispecies relationality, response-ability, and ethical co-becoming. Building on entrepreneurship-as-practice scholarship, and drawing in particular on a critical posthumanist practice approach, we extend emerging calls to rethink entrepreneurship (and EE) beyond anthropocentrism by translating multispecies thinking into educational practice. Drawing on illustrative examples from posthuman and eco-relational pedagogies in higher education we develop a set of propositions for a multispecies entrepreneurship pedagogy to reimagine EE as embodied, situated, and relational, involving both human and more-than-human actors as co-participants.
We argue that such a pedagogy can cultivate response-able entrepreneurs oriented toward ecological justice, care, and multispecies flourishing. The manuscript contributes to entrepreneurship-education-as-practice by offering a novel theoretical framing and concrete pedagogical orientations for post-anthropocentric futures.
Anthropocene, entrepreneurship-as-practice, entrepreneurship education, multispecies relations, posthumanism