On the Misuse of Realism in the Study of Entrepreneurship
批评了Alvarez和Barney对批判现实主义的解读，指出其基于对现实主义科学哲学的误读，反而破坏了现实主义的本质并延续了常见误解。
The AMR Decade Award for Shane and Venkataraman's (2000) “The Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research” recently stimulated a number of commentaries around the burning issue of “entrepreneurial opportunities” (Eckhardt & Shane, 2013; Shane, 2012; Venkataraman, Sarasvathy, Dew, & Forster, 2012). Among them, Alvarez and Barney (2013) extend their earlier analyses on the philosophical foundations of entrepreneurial opportunities (Alvarez & Barney, 2007, 2010) to critique the “critical realist” underpinnings of the discovery approach to entrepreneurship1 because of critical realism's alleged unsuitability for understanding the nature of opportunities. Our intention here is to explain why germane conceptions of critical realism are grounded on a misreading of realist philosophy of science that, as a matter of fact, subverts the very raison-d'être of realism2 and perpetuates popular misunderstandings.