This core textbook 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, the text...
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This core textbook 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, the text examines the emergence and development of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline and takes a critical look at the varying positions in the field as well as their overall contribution to entrepreneurship as a whole. Through twelve chapters, written from such wide ranging perspectives as feminism, psychology, institutionalism, critical realism and evolution, the book provides a clear and accessible framework that encourages students’ critical engagement with the subject.
This is an essential textbook for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of entrepreneurship.
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An advanced level, critical entrepreneurship textbook
Editors who are renowned for high level research in the entrepreneurship discipline and have unparalleled academic credibility
Contributions from well-known and respected entrepreneurship academics, each of whom is an expert in their field
Strong pedagogy: each chapter features case studies and discussion questions to demonstrate applied theories and provoke critical analysis
Introduces students in an accessible way to theories and approaches and provides a critical guide to social science
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.