Author: Richard Swedberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 403
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0-19-566863-4
Description
This volume of readings, dealing with the less delved area of entrepreneurship, comprehensively analyses the culture and role of the entrepreneur from an interdisciplinary perspective and brings together a number of exciting and useful insights on the subject.
The contributors present theoretical and conceptual issues surrounding entrepreneurship discussing classical statements on entrepreneurship; recent and promising contributions; and the process of entrepreneurship or business innovations in an already existing firm. Additionally, a list of key readings on entrepreneurship for students and researchers makes this volume invaluable.
This reader will interest academics and students of management studies, economics and sociology, general readers, and entrepreneurs.
REVIEWS
The book contains several articles by distinguished writers in the field (of entrepreneurship), This volume will be of immense use to academics and students in the field of management and social studies.
-The Hindu
The case studies provide valuable inputs, especially for official programmes to foster ethnic entrepreneurship or encourage small-scale industry. Swedberg also raises the question of whether such studies could be broadened to inform research on entrepreneurs in general.
-The Financial Express
Swedberg's plea for a direct overlap between practical entrepreneurship (as taught at business schools) and social science research for mutual benefit is sound. This book makes absorbing reading.
-Business Standard
Contents
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
INTRODUCTION
The Social Science View of Entrepreneurship:
Introduction and Practical Applications
DIFFERENT SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP
INTRODUCTION
Entrepreneurship as Innovation
Entrepreneurship Before and After Schumpeter
The Entrepreneur and Profit
Values and Entrepreneurship in the Americas
The Modernization of Entrepreneurship
Economic Spheres in Darfur
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE FIRM
INTRODUCTION
When a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Structural, Collective, and Social Conditions for Innovation in Organization
Entrepreneurial Strategies in New Organizational Populations
Innovation in Large and Small Firms
The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN A CHANGING WORLD
(New Actors, New Questions, New Strategies)
INTRODUCTION
The Network Entrepreneur
The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurship and Culture: The Case of Freddy, the Strawberry Man
Ethnic Entrepreneurs
INDEX