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Book SynopsisEntrepreneurship is still regarded by many as in the theory building stage, which has led to some commentaries to suggest that the field is fragmented and at a nascent stage of development.
Developing a critical and constructive position towards current theories, methods, assumptions and beliefs, the book seeks to question the prevailing assumptions currently dominating entrepreneurial researching and practice. The book brings together leading thinkers, practitioners and researchers in the field to draw upon new theoretical perspectives and approaches as a means of illustrating the inherently social and contextualized nature of entrepreneurial practice, and advance the manner in which we critically think about and engage with various aspects of entrepreneurial practice and development.
Including a unique combination of studies that illustrate critical perspectives of current entrepreneurship research, the book covers a broad spectrum in terms of topics and approaches, as well as in terms of diversity and critique in their perspectives towards entrepreneurial practice and scholarship.
Trade ReviewPart of a two-volume series that provides critical perspectives on current entrepreneurship research, theories, methods, assumptions, and beliefs, this volume brings together 10 chapters by entrepreneurship, business, and management researchers from Europe. They discuss the use of an extended stage model for the evaluation and adoption of e-business in the small business sector in the Middle East; entrepreneurship curriculum development and the role of thinking as an entrepreneur; the decision-making processes past the start-up stage for small businesses growth; the process of facilitation of entrepreneurial learning; the interactions of formal and informal forms of small business support; the role of volunteer business mentoring in improving financing and financial management in youth enterprises in deprived under-served neighborhoods; the Technium initiative in Wales to encourage business startups and growth in the knowledge economy sector; dimensions of the "open space" of freely available resources for entrepreneurship; and conflict relationships in a team-based research project. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Creating Entrepreneurial Space: Talking through Multi voices, reflections on emerging debates;
David Higgins, Paul Jones and Pauric McGowan Chapter 2. An Extended Stage Model for Assessing Yemeni SMEs’ E-Business Adoption;
Ahmed Abdullah, Gareth R.T. White and Brychan Thomas Chapter 3. What does it mean to think as an entrepreneur? Using threshold concept theory to inform entrepreneurship education;
Lucy Hatt Chapter 4. Exploring decision-making: an information processing perspective;
Marian Evans Chapter 5. Facilitation of learning in Transformative Learning Circles: Enabling entrepreneurial mindsets through co-creation of knowledge;
Martin N. Ndlela, Åse Storhaug Hole, Victoria Konovalenko Slettli, Hanne Haave, Xiang Ying Mei, Daniela Lundesgaard, Inge Hermanrud, Kjell Staffas and Kamran Namdar Chapter 6. Business support as regulatory context: exploring the enterprise industry;
Oliver Mallett Chapter 7. The Role of Mentoring in Youth Entrepreneurship Finance: A Global Perspective;
Robyn Owen, Julie Haddock-Millar, Leandro Sepulveda, Chandana Sanyal, Stephen Syrett, Neil Kaye and David Deakins Chapter 8. Reflections on Technium Swansea: Ambition, Learning & Patience;
Gareth Davies, Sian Roderick, Michael D. Williams and Roderick Thomas Chapter 9. Entrepreneurship in the Open Space: A New Dynamic for Creating Value;
David Rae Chapter 10. Researching Entrepreneurship: Conflictual Relationships in a Team-based Project;
Oswald Jones
