Entrepreneurship

The Social Science View
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829461-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

A new addition to the series that looks at the culture and role of the entrepreneur from different disciplinary perspectives. Includes all the key readings, introduced by a highly respected editor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swedberg, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- A Guide to the Social Science Literature for Entrepreneurs-To-Be

- Part I: Different Social Science Perspectives on Entrepreneurship

- 1: Joseph A. Schumpeter: Entrepreneurship as Innovation

- 2: Mark Blaug: Entrepreneurship Before and After Schumpeter

- 3: Ludwig von Mises: The Entrepreneur and Profit

- 4: S. M. Lipset: Values and Entrepreneurship in the Americas

- 5: Alexander Gerschenkron: The Modernization of Entrepreneurship

- 6: Fredric Barth: Economic Spheres in Darfur

- Part II: Entrepreneurship and the Firm. Small Firms, Large Firms, and How a Manager can also be an Entrepreneur

- 7: Rosabeth Moss Kanter: When a Thousand Flowers Bloom

- Part III: Entrepreneurship and the Firm

- 8: Rosabeth Moss Kanter: When a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Structural, Collective, and Social Conditions for Innovation in Organization

- 9: Howard Aldrich: Entrepreneurial Strategies in New Organizational Populations

- 10: Kenneth Arrow: Innovation in Large and Small Firms

- 11: Mark Granovetter: The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs

- Part IV: Entrepreneurship in a Changing World

- 12: Ronald Burt: The Network Entrepreneur

- 13: AnnaLee Saxenian: The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley

- 14: Monica Lindh de Montoya: Entrepreneurship and Culture: The Case of Freddy, the Strawberry Man

- 15: Roger Waldinger, Howard Aldrich, and Robin Ward: Ethnic Entrepreneurs

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. During his career he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Harvard University (1987/88), the Russell Sage Foundation (1990/91), the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (Summer 1993), and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (summers of 1995, 1996, and 1997). He is an editorial member of Administrative Science Quarterly and an advisory member of the journals Current Sociology and Geschichte und Gegenwart: Vierteljahreshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, Gesellschaftsanalyse und politische Bildung.