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Jim Lei

PhD fellow

Emner
Ledelse Iværksætteri Kunstig intelligens Medier Kultur Filosofi

Primary research areas

Philosophy of Entrepreneurship

Interrogating foundational concepts in entrepreneurship studies through philosophical analysis, clarifying assumptions about future, desire, resource, and other theoretical constructs, and developing conceptual frameworks that sharpen our understanding of existing theory and practice.

Entrepreneurship in Mass Media

Examining cinematic and television narratives to show how these mass media representations construct, circulate, and contest prevailing socio-cultural meanings of entrepreneurship.

Theology of Leadership

Exploring how foundational concepts in leadership studies embed theological assumptions about knowledge, being, action, and ethics, and assessing their implications for theory and practice.

Rethinking business from concepts to culture

My work develops philosophy as a reflexive lens for business practice. I’m particularly interested in how entrepreneurship is imagined—from core concepts such as future and desire to mass media portrayals in film and television—and how leadership embeds theological assumptions that shape our knowledge and action. 

By making hidden premises explicit, I help companies, educators, and policymakers sharpen understanding, design responsible ventures, and read popular business narratives critically. The aim is to foster more inclusive, ethically aware business research and practice, and to enable more reflexive, conceptually informed decision-making under uncertainty. 

My doctoral research primarily draws on contemporary French philosophy (Bataille, Deleuze, Derrida, Malabou) to build performative, practice-reflexive concepts that help rethink entrepreneurship in society. 

Recent research projects

Rethinking Entrepreneurship in Society

We explore how entrepreneurship shapes society, inequality, and social change, moving beyond Silicon Valley models to understand entrepreneurialism in Denmark and beyond.
https://www.rethinkingentrepreneurship.com