The Routledge Companion to Entrepreneurship (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Baker, Ted; Welter, Friederike

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136218620
• Artikelnr.: 41505946

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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