Download or read book Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future written by Joost Beuving and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future, looking at their social practices, language and rituals through which they neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as 'future-work': the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study is grounded in ethnographic case material from global frontiers: second-hand car dealers in West Africa; exporters of fresh fish from Lake Victoria, East Africa; farmed fish entrepreneurs in Greece; and investment bankers in Financial America. It targets students and scholars from the social sciences and economics, and it has theoretical and practical implications.
Download or read book The Theory of Entrepreneurship written by Chandra S. Mishra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of Entrepreneurship examines the interiors of the entrepreneurial value creation process, and offers a new unified and comprehensive theory to afford empirical investigations as well as delineate a broader view of the entrepreneurial contextual milieu.
Download or read book Theories of Entrepreneurship written by Sharon A. Alvarez and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates two sets of assumption about the nature of opportunities, the nature of entrepreneurs, and the nature of the decision-making context within which entrepreneurs operate. Sets the basis for future explorations into entrepreneurship theory.
Download or read book Entrepreneurial Theorizing written by Dean A. Shepherd and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book investigates an entrepreneurial approach to building new theories. It provides a rich understanding of how specific tools facilitate aspects of the theorizing process and offers a clearer big picture of the process of building important new entrepreneurship theories. The authors show that anthropomorphizing has been a critically important tool for developing influential entrepreneurship theories. They reveal how scholars build on their rich and highly accessible understanding of humans (i.e., the self and others) to make guesses and sense of entrepreneurial anomalies, articulate theoretical mechanisms to build more robust entrepreneurship theories, and create plausible stories that facilitate sensegiving. Further, they offer a framework that guides entrepreneurship scholars in finding a balance to maximize their contributions and guides reviewers and editors in managing the revise-and-resubmit process to advance the entrepreneurship field. Finally, they present lean scholarship as an approach to developing a portfolio of high-quality, high-impact papers. Lean scholarship starts with an entrepreneurial mindset and involves creating a minimum viable paper, exploring its validity, adding a plausible paper to one’s portfolio, and managing the portfolio by periodically deciding whether to persevere, pivot, or terminate each paper. This seminal work will appeal to entrepreneurship researchers, both those new to the field as well as seasoned veterans, who want to learn more about the tools that can be used to generate new knowledge about new ventures and other entrepreneurship topics.
Download or read book Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory written by Ted Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing appreciation for the importance of contexts. This promises to improve both the practical relevance and the theoretical rigor of research in this field. Entrepreneurship means different things to different people at different times and in different places and both its causes and its consequences likewise vary. For example, for some people entrepreneurship can be a glorious path to emancipation, while for others it can represent the yoke tethering them to the burdens of overwork and drudgery. For some communities it can drive renaissance and vibrancy while for others it allows only bare survival. In this book, we assess and attempt to push forward contemporary conceptualizations of contexts that matter for entrepreneurship, pointing in particular to opportunities generating new insights by attending to contexts in novel or underexplored ways. This book shows that the ongoing contextualization of entrepreneurship research should not simply generate a proliferation of unique theories – one for every context – but can instead result in better theory construction, testing and understanding of boundary conditions, thereby leading us to richer and more profound understanding of entrepreneurship across its many forms. Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory will critically review the current debate and existing literature on contexts and entrepreneurship and use this to synthesize new theoretical and methodological frameworks that point to important directions for future research.
Download or read book Foundational Research in Entrepreneurship Studies written by Golshan Javadian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws attention to the classic, seminal articles in entrepreneurship that have made profound contributions to the field’s emergence, development, and maturity. In each chapter, a classic is identified, ideas contained therein that are still relevant to the field are discussed, and subsequently follow-up research that is being conducted based on these ideas is highlighted, including possible areas of future research. Scholars will embrace this systematic effort to identify and reveal the contribution of classic articles in entrepreneurship research and their impact on subsequent scholarship.
Download or read book Theoretical Developments and Future Research in Family Business written by Philip Phan and published by IAP. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, research in family business has been confined to a sub-group of entrepreneurship scholars, labor economists, and sociologists. Family business employment is often the only economic option available to migrants, the first entrepreneurial experience for young people, and a source of an economy's new business creation activities. These issues are typically framed in terms of the generational transfer of wealth, management succession, or the interplay between the economic system of a family and its sociopolitical system. The phenomenon is clearly widespread but for some reason continues to be poorly understood. We believe that progress on the empirical front has been hampered by a lack of accepted theoretical frameworks. For example, attempts to employ agency theory, geographic agglomeration and spill overs, social networks, sense making, bargaining and other frameworks have been scattered. In our view, the extant research has not created the theoretic ballast that can withstand repeated empirical verification. More fundamentally, researchers are beginning to ask, "Is family business theoretically distinctive or a convenient phenomenon for exploiting familiar theories with new data?" We believe the time is ripe for a focused look at the theoretical history and prospects of family business research. Review articles grounded in economics, sociology, psychology and political economy and that offer multidisciplinary implications are especially sought. Theory based empirical papers are also welcomed. We believe that there are exciting opportunities for theory development and so encourage authors to focus on this in their submissions. In sum, the focus of this volume is on showcasing and advancing the latest research in family business.
Download or read book Entrepreneurial Action written by Andrew C. Corbett and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 14 addresses the central issue of entrepreneurial action: while many factors are important to the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship does not happen until someone takes action!
Download or read book Modern Classics in Entrepreneurship Studies written by Banu Ozkazanc-Pan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to identify and analyze modern classics in entrepreneurship research with the goal of highlighting cutting-edge themes in the work of various scholars that are pushing the boundaries of the field, post 2000. As the entrepreneurship field matures, it is important to identify the novel contributions that will help shape the next decades of scholarship, by providing scholars with the concepts, frameworks, and approaches needed to help develop the new theories and practices of entrepreneurship. By focusing on emerging key contributions, this book takes a stance that sets it apart from other similar works by scholars that have focused only on existing themes rather than those that will characterize the relationship between entrepreneurship and new technological advances, growing inequalities, gender, diversity and inclusion, and socio-political shifts in the landscape of entrepreneurial ecosystems, allowing for critical and new conversations on entrepreneurship to take shape. This book will provide discussion on emergent themes and approaches that will continue to build the future of entrepreneurship as an exciting and rigorous academic discipline.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship written by Ivan Bull and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is cast in the form of a debate, each of the main papers being followed by an extended comment from another leading researcher in the author's field. Contributions across a variety of disciplines create new and fruitful theoretical perspectives which will enrich future research in entrepreneurship. Researchers and students will find its treatment of specific topics as well as its broad theoretical sweep of great value in approaching the issues central to the subject, while managers, especially of new firms, will welcome this accessible introduction to current thinking in the field.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship written by Álvaro Cuervo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship can, at times, seem like a veritable jungle where finding one's way can prove to be difficult. This book functions as a map locating the most important issues: those where an acceptable consensus already exists, and those that remain open to discussion. In so doing, we have presented the accounts of distinguished explorers in their own words.
Download or read book Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Teams written by Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reinforces the value and importance of entrepreneurial teams within the entrepreneurship literature. The expert group of contributors identifies and develops various key areas of research on entrepreneurship teams and suggests the way ahead for future research in the area. The contributors expand on the existing literature on entrepreneurial teams by first revisiting the most recent framework applied to entrepreneurial teams (that is the Inputs-Mediators-Outputs-Inputs model) and then advancing our understanding of issues such as formation, structuring, deep-level diversity and emergent states. The book additionally considers different contexts of application with reference to their commonalities and specificities and investigates under-researched areas such as entrepreneurial teams within indigenous communities, ethnically diverse groups and women entrepreneurs. The contributors present practice-relevant research and offer researchers a platform from which they can explore new insights into the phenomenon of entrepreneurial teams.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship As Practice written by Neil Aaron Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book takes seriously the ordinary activities of entrepreneurship and maps out new pathways for scholars to understand the nature, properties, and implications of studying practices for entrepreneurship studies. Entrepreneurship is neither an art nor a science, but a bundle of practices, as Peter Drucker once observed. Curiously however, academic research on entrepreneurship mostly abstracts away from practical activity. In contrast, Entrepreneurship As Practice takes ordinary activities of entrepreneurship seriously by mapping out new pathways for scholars to consider the everyday practices through which entrepreneurship occurs. Each chapter draws on contemporary theories of practice to illuminate the nature, properties, and implications of studying the practices of entrepreneurship. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Entrepreneurial Decisions written by Andrea Caputo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation, success and long-term survival of enterprises are fundamentally linked to the effectiveness of decision-making processes and negotiation capabilities. This book provides an overview of research into how decisions permeate entrepreneurial ventures throughout their lifecycle. A multidisciplinary approach combining psychology, sociology and political science is used to investigate how entrepreneurs address and deal with decision-making. The respective contributions highlight the latest empirical, theoretical and meta-research, and bridge the gap between literature on entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial and innovative behaviours with that on decision-making and negotiation. This book is one of the first to combine these streams of research, thereby offering a new and insightful addition to the field of entrepreneurship.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship Theory At The Crossroads 2Nd Ed written by Mathew J. Manimala and published by Dreamtech Press. This book was released on 2005-10-21 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of the author's major research papers on entrepreneurship, deriving valuable propositions from a wide range of entrepreneurial practices. It contains eight newly added chapters including a brilliant critique on the author's Theory of Entrepreneurial Heuristics by three British scholars. The papers included in this book deal with a variety of themes in entrepreneurship theory.· Chapter 1. Entrepreneurial Innovation: Beyond Schumpeter · Chapter 2. Innovative Entrepreneurship: Testing the Theory of Environmental Determinism · Chapter 3. Entrepreneurial Heuristics: A Comparison between High PI (Pioneering-Innovative) and Low PI Ventures Chapter 4. Rules of Thumb that help Innovators: ATale of Two Entrepreneurs · Chapter 5. New Venture Strategies: The Innovators' Choice · Chapter 6. Beyond Innovators and Imitators: A Taxonomy of Entrepreneurs · Chapter 7. Networking for Innovation: Anecdotal Evidences from a Large-Sample Study of Innovative Enterprises Chapter 8. Higher Education-Enterprise Co-operation and the Entrepreneurial Graduate: The Need for a New Paradigm · Chapter 9. Organizational Learning through Partnerships: The Case of SMEs · Chapter 10. Managing R & D in SMEs: Taking Advantage of the Giants' Shoulders · Chapter 11. Growth Venture Policies and Founder Characteristics: Evidence from British High-Growth and Low-Growth Ventures · Chapter 12. Policies and Founder Characteristics of New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs): A Comparison between British and Indian Firms · Chapter 13. Founder Characteristics and Start-up Policies of Entrepreneurial Ventures: A Comparison between British and Indian Enterprises · Chapter 14. Entrepreneurial Motivation Revisited · Chapter15. Promoting Industrial Clusters in India: Lessons from Europe and East Asia · Chapter 16. Entrepreneurship in Established Indian Firms: Strategies for Coping with Large-Scale Changes in the Business Environment · Chapter 17. Financing Innovation: Strategies of Established versus Start-up Ventures · Chapter 18. Turnaround Management: AStage-Theory for the Doubly Entrepreneurial Act · Chapter 19. Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions and Activity Levels in India: Results of a National Survey Compared with the Global Scenario · Chapter 20. Epilogue Manimala's Entrepreneurial Cognition Research: The Beginning of Deep' Entrepreneurial Cognition Research
Download or read book The Age of Entrepreneurship Education Research written by Andrew C. Corbett and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of renowned entrepreneurship education researchers explores topics such as the theory of ideation, how to develop an expertise approach, how to reimagine entrepreneurship education to promote gender equality, how to activate an entrepreneurial mindset for neuro-diverse students, and more.
Download or read book Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice written by Suna Lowe Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of entrepreneurship are surrounded by tensions and dilemmas, which this book presents as a collection of paradoxes. This challenges the understanding of entrepreneurship and offers the reader an insight into the paradoxical nature of the theories. At the same time, the paradoxes reflect the uncertainty and complexity that the entrepreneurs are confronted with in their everyday life. The book challenges the reader to be critical and to take a stand on many of the situations in which the entrepreneurs are involved on their entrepreneurial journey â?? situations which are often characterized by dilemmas and mystery. Each chapter is initiated with a concrete entrepreneurial story, which gives you an appetite on the core issue of the chapter and the paradox dealt with in the chapter. The reader meets â??real life entrepreneursâ? in a very concrete way. The next step is introduction and discussion of entrepreneurship theories and concepts related to the story and the topic of the chapter. Each chapter ends up with a double interpretation of the story which reflects the two sides of the paradox. Throughout the chapters, a number of exercises challenge the student to work with theory and take a stand on concrete problems. Some of these exercises can be solved by means of e-tools. The book is an element in a learning universe rather than just a traditional textbook: www.idea-textbook.dk. The book has an introductory purpose. It requires no special previous knowledge and can be used in any study field at uni-versities and institutions of higher education. The book ad-dresses two categories of students: those who wish to start their own company â?? or perhaps already run their own company while studying â?? and those who, more generally speaking, wish to develop an entrepreneurial way of thinking and relevant entrepreneurial competences for use in their future career.
