"This outstanding work will be required reading for all entrepreneurship scholars."--Andrew H. Van de Ven, University of Minnesota
"A detailed and fresh look at the conceptual end of the business of making money in developed societies."--Enterprise and Society
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Introduction: premises of the entrepreneurship dynamic Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Elaine Romanelli; Part I. The origins of Entrepreneurial Activity and New Organizations: 2. The company they keep; founders' models for organizing new firms M. Diane Burton; 3. The local origins of new firms Elaine Romanelli and Claudia Bird Schoonhoven; 4. The role of immigrant entrepreneurs in new venture creation Annalee Saxenian; 5. The magic beanstalk vision: commercializing university inventions and research Anne S. Miner, Dale T. Eesley, Michael Devaughn and Thekla Rura-Polley; 6. Knowledge industries and idea entrepreneurs: new dimensions of innovative products, services, and organizations Eric Abrahamson and Gregory Fairchild; 7. From the technology cycle to the entrepreneurshipdynamic: the social context of entrepreneurial innovation Johann Peter Murmann and Michael L. Tushman; Part II. Entrepreneurship in the Evolution of Industries: 8. Learning and legitimacy: entrepreneurial responses to constraints on the emergence of new populations and organizations Howard E. Aldrich and Ted Baker; 9. Entrepreneurial action in the creation of the speciality coffee niche Violina P. Rindova and Charles J. Fombrun; 10. The power of public competition: promoting cognitive legitimacy through certification contests Hayagreeva Rao; 11. social movement theory and the evolution of new organizational forms Anand Swaminathan and James B. Wade; 12. Entrepreneurship in context: strategic interaction and the emergence of regional economies Ari Ginsberg, Erik R. Larsen and Alessandro Lomi; 13. The legal environment of entrepreneurship: observations on the legitimation of venture finance in Silicon Valley Mark C. Suchman, Daniel J. Steward and Clifford A. Westfall; 14. Emergent themes and the next wave of entrepreneurship research Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Elaine Romanelli; References; Index.
