Entrepreneurialism today is more than a set of business practices. It has become a pervasive ideology that shapes how societies think, organize, and act. It frames political choices, legitimizes institutional norms, and structures aspirations. Its logic of constant disruption, self-optimization, and market-driven progress increasingly extends into domains as varied as education, public governance, social development, and geopolitics.

The new Special Issue in Journal of Business Venturing Insights uses developing in a double sense: first, to examine how entrepreneurialism itself has developed historically, conceptually, and discursively; and second, to interrogate how entrepreneurialism shapes what counts as “development”, broadly conceived as personal or collective, material or symbolic, political or cultural progress or improvement.

In this online event, Special Issue Editors Christina Lubinski (Copenhagen Business School) and Arun Kumar (King’s College London) discuss the call for papers and welcome questions around the themes of the issue.