Description
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. Edited By Kevin Mole and Monder Ram 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.
