Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Theory and Perspective

✍ Scribed by Álvaro Cuervo, Domingo Ribeiro, Salvador Roig (auth.), Prof. Álvaro Cuervo, Prof. Domingo Ribeiro, Prof. Salvador Roig (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With so many theories and so many scientific bodies implicated in its study, 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. The book contains three parts reflecting the synergistic approach opted for by the editors: Concepts, Theory, and Perspective, that correspond to previously published academic articles that were either important in the scientific consolidation of Entrepreneurship, or that present challenges for the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Theory and Perspective. Introduction....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Entrepreneurship as a Scientific Research Programme * ....Pages 23-71
Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners: A Conceptualization * ....Pages 73-81
Toward a Reconciliation of the Definitional Issues in the Field of Corporate Entrepreneurship * ....Pages 83-103
Fools Rush in? The Institutional Context of Industry Creation * ....Pages 105-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Entrepreneurship: Past Research and Future Challenges * ....Pages 131-154
A Paradigm of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Management * ....Pages 155-170
The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research * ....Pages 171-184
The Cognitive Infrastructure of Opportunity Emergence * ....Pages 185-206
The Entrepreneurship of Resource-based Theory * ....Pages 207-227
Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development * ....Pages 229-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research: Current Research Practice and Suggestions for the Future * ....Pages 245-265
Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past Trends and Future Directions * ....Pages 267-291
Many are Called, but Few are Chosen: An Evolutionary Perspective for the Study of Entrepreneurship....Pages 293-311
The New Venture Decision: An Analysis Based on the GEM Project Database * ....Pages 313-333
Entrepreneurship Research in AMJ : What Has Been Published, and What Might the Future Hold? * ....Pages 335-348

✦ Subjects

Entrepreneurship; Organization/Planning; Management/Business for Professionals