Entrepreneurship as Practice: Time for More Managerial Relevance

ISBN-13: 9789811948183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Ratten, Vanessa

Opis

Entrepreneurship as practice refers to the everyday way that innovation and futuristic thinking is incorporated into business ventures. It refers to the actual implementation of entrepreneurship within any kind of market context that emphasises proactive change. This edited book focuses on entrepreneurship as a practice as a management imperative. This means highlighting the way entrepreneurship is a practice and requires active engagement. Each chapter in the book discusses a different aspect of entrepreneurship as practice as a way of contributing to the broader discussion of what entrepreneurship is and means in today's global society.

Spis treści

Entrepreneurship as Practice: An Overview.- An Entrepreneurship as Practice Framing of Entrepreneurial Learning and the Entrepreneurial Process.- Entrepreneurial Self-identity, Social Ties and Self-efficacy Affecting Persuasion Ability.- Returnee Entrepreneurship in China: The Multi-faced Story in the Travel of Location, Time and Culture.- Entrepreneurial Practices in Eco-innovation: Circular Challenges Related to the Tomato Textile Project in the Netherlands.- The Influence of Affects on Workaholism in Teleworking During the COVID-19 Pandemic- a Partial Least Squares Model.- Is the Impact of Sustainability Exploration on Firm Economic Return so Obvious? The Case of Internationalized Spanish Firms Operating in High-tech and Low-tech Industries.- Digital Transformation of the Quadruple Helix: Technological Management Interrelations for Sustainable Innovation.

O autorze

Vanessa Ratten is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship  at La Trobe University. She is Program Director of the Masters of Management and teaches Corporate Venturing and Managing Innovation. She has published seven sole authored books including Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Springer). She has also edited more than twenty books including Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business (Springer).