Perspectives in Entrepreneurship: A Critical Approach

ISBN-13: 9780230241107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 232 str.

Kevin Mole

Opis

This text seeks to explain the emergence and development of entrepreneurship and to make students aware of different perspectives taken within the discipline. It iscritical in its approach, expounding the view that contrasting positions can be taken in considering certain instances, and aiming to add to the academic body of knowledge in this still emerging field -- but in a student friendly fashion.The book iswritten by acknowledged experts and high profile academics.It willtend toappeal to more advanced students and lecturers within the subject area."

Spis treści

PART ONE: MICRO PERSPECTIVES.- The Rational Choice Approach to Entrepreneurship; K. Mole & S. Roper.- The Pyschology of the Entrepreneursh; L. Kolvereid & E. Isaksen.- Undertaking Interpretive Work in Entrepreneurship Research;D. Fletcher.- PART TWO: MACRO PERSPECTIVES.- Feminism, Gender and Entrepreneurship; S. Marlow.- An Introduction to Network Approaches and Embeddedness; S. Drakopoulos Dodd.- Entrepreneurship and Neo-Institutional Theory; P. Tracey.- Evolution and Entrepreneurship; D. Breslin.- Entrepreneurship in the Context of the Resource-Based View of the Firm; N. Foss.- PART THREE: INTEGRATING MICRO AND MACRO PERSPECTIVES.- Critical Realism and Entrepreneurship; K. Mole.- Critical Theories of Entrepreneurship; A Spicer.- Pragmatism, Reality and Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Action and Effectuation Perspectives; T. Watson.

O autorze

KEVIN MOLE Associate Professor in Enterprise at Warwick Business School, UK, having previously been Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (CSME). He has published in a number of journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, British Journal of Management, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, and the International Small Business Journal. 
 
MONDER RAM Professor of Small Business at De Montfort University, UK, and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME). He has extensive experience of working in, researching, and acting as a consultant to ethnic minority businesses and has published widely on the subject. Monder is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a director of the Institute of Small Business Affairs. Monder is also a member of the Department of Trade and Industry's Ethnic Minority Business Forum and Small Business Council. 
  
 

Blurb

How should we think about entrepreneurship? Should we focus on the psychology of people who become entrepreneurs or consider the groups that people belong to? Should we emphasize the incentives, context and environment that lead people to become entrepreneurial? This book presents different ways of thinking about entrepreneurship: instead of topics such as finance or opportunities, the book focuses on perspectives or ways of seeing. Written by leading experts, Perspectives in Entrepreneurship examines the emergence and development of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline. The book takes a critical look at the varying positions in the field and their overall contribution to entrepreneurship as a whole.

Perspectives in Entrepreneurship is an essential text for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of entrepreneurship.