The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship

ISBN-13: 9780415631761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 500 str.

Ted Baker;Friederike Welter;¬Abar

Opis

Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us. The purpose of this book is to map the research terrain of entrepreneurship, providing the perfect starting point for new and existing researchers looking to explore. Topics covered range from emerging perspective, through issues at the core of the field to innovative methodologies. Starting off with a preface by Bill Gartner, each section of the book brings together a world class set of established leading researchers and rising stars. This considered, comprehensive and conclusive companion integrates the recent debates in entrepreneurship research under one cover, to provide a resource which will be useful across disciplinary boundaries and for a whole range of students and researchers.

Spis treści

Part I: Setting the Scene for the Companion of Entrepreneurship  1. Bridges to the Future: Challenging the Nature of Entrepreneurship Scholarship  Part II: the Discipline of Entrepreneurship Research  2. Entrepreneurship research and its Historical Background  3. Sketching a Philosophy of Entrepreneurship  4. Action and Process, Vision and Values: Entrepreneurship Means Something Different to Everyone  Part III: Reasons and Motivations for Entering Entrepreneurship  5. Passions and Entrepreneurs  6. The Eclipse and New Dawn of Individual Differences Research: Charting a Path Forward  7. Identity and Entrepreneurship  8. Thinking Different: Effectual Logic and Behaviour  9. Do it Again!: Recent Developments in the Study of Habitual Entrepreneurship and a Look to the Future  Part IV: Resources and Resourcefulness  10. Bricolage: Making do with what is at Hand  11. Entrepreneurial Families and Households  12. Microfinance Re-Imagined: Personal Banking for the Poor  13. Financing the Business  14. A Framework for Investigating University-Based Technology Transfer and Commercialization  Part V: Entrepreneurship, Wealth and Well-Being  15. The Ordinary Entrepreneur  16. Informal, Illegal and Criminal Entrepreneurship  17. Poverty, Reciprocity and Community-Based Entrepreneurship: Enlarging the Discussion  18. Capitalizing on Creativity: Insights on Creative Entrepreneurship  19. Entrepreneuring the Aesthetic: Arts Entrepreneurship and Reconciliation  20. Entrepreneurship Across Borders  21. Growing Entrepreneurial Economies: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development  Part VI: Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Equal and Unequal  22. Empowerment, Place and Entrepreneurship: Women in the Global South  23. Entrepreneurial Agency and Institutions  24. The Rhetoric of Power: Entrepreneurship and Politics  25. Entrepreneurship as Ethnic Minority Liberation  26. Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Individual-Opportunity Nexus  Part VII:Toward Broader Understanding: The Methodological Future  27. Who Needs a Shrink when you have Businessweek?: Using Content Analysis to get inside the heads of Entrepreneurs, VCS and Other Market Participants  28. challenges and Questions: Research on Entrepreneurship in developing Countries  29. Getting Inside Entrepreneurs' Heart and Mind: Methods for Advancing Entrepreneurship Research on Affect and Cognition  30. Salesman or Scholars?: A Critical Examination of Research Scholarship in the Field of Entrepreneurship

O autorze

Ted Baker is Professor of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at North Carolina State University, US and Senior Fellow at Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, South Africa. Friederike Welter is President of the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn, Professor at the University of Siegen, Germany and visiting scholar at JIBS, Sweden.