Perspectives in entrepreneurship : a critical approach / [printed text] / Kevin Mole ; Monder Ram . - Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 . - xiv, 217 p. : ill (b & w) ; 25 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-230-24110-7

Keywords:	Entrepreneurship
Class number:	658.421
Abstract:	How should we think about entrepreneurship? Should we focus on the psychology of people who become entrepreneurs or consider the groups that people belong to? Should we emphasize the incentives, context and environment that lead people to become entrepreneurial? This book 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, Perspectives in Entrepreneurship examines the emergence and development of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline. The book takes a critical look at the varying positions in the field and their overall contribution to entrepreneurship as a whole. Perspectives in Entrepreneurship is an essential text for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of entrepreneurship.
Contents note:	Part One: Micro Perspectives The Rational Choice Approach to Entrepreneurship; The Pyschology of the Entrepreneurship; Undertaking Interpretive Work in Entrepreneurship Research Part Two: Macro Perspectives Feminism, Gender and Entrepreneurship; An Introduction to Network Approaches and Embeddedness; Entrepreneurship and Neo-Institutional Theory; Evolution and Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship in the Context of the Resource-Based View of the Firm Part Three: Integrating Micro and Macro Perspectives Critical Realism and Entrepreneurship; Critical Theories of Entrepreneurship; Pragmatism, Reality and Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Action and Effectuation Perspectives Conclusion; Bibliographer; Author Index; Subject Index