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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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
