Entrepreneurship Concepts, Theory and Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cuervo, Álvaro (Editor), Ribeiro, Domingo (Editor), Roig, Salvador (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Business.; Entrepreneurship.; Management.; Organization.; Planning.; Business and Management.

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 alrea...

Table of Contents:

• Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Theory and Perspective. Introduction
• Entrepreneurship: Concepts, Theory and Perspective. Introduction
• Concepts
• Entrepreneurship as a Scientific Research Programme*
• Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners: A Conceptualization*
• Toward a Reconciliation of the Definitional Issues in the Field of Corporate Entrepreneurship*
• Fools Rush in? The Institutional Context of Industry Creation*
• Theory
• Entrepreneurship: Past Research and Future Challenges*
• A Paradigm of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Management*
• The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research*
• The Cognitive Infrastructure of Opportunity Emergence*
• The Entrepreneurship of Resource-based Theory*
• Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development*
• Perspective
• Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research: Current Research Practice and Suggestions for the Future*
• Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past Trends and Future Directions*
• Many are Called, but Few are Chosen: An Evolutionary Perspective for the Study of Entrepreneurship
• The New Venture Decision: An Analysis Based on the GEM Project Database*
• Entrepreneurship Research in AMJ: What Has Been Published, and What Might the Future Hold?*.