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Book SynopsisExamining the organizational conditions promoting entrepreneurship and the effect of new industries on existing societies, this volume attempts, from the viewpoint of the interdisciplinary field of organization studies, to answer two major questions about entrepreneurship.
Trade Review"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"Claudia Schoonhoven and Elaine Romanelli have delivered a compelling edited volume to enrich our understanding of entrepreneuship as a contextual process . . . .[
The Entrepreneurship Dynamic] is an impressive exploration of the conditions, processes, and outcomes of the entrepreneurial process . . . .[It] is an excelllent volume that deserves a prominent position on the bookshelves of serious students of entrepreneuship and organizations . . .Our bottom line: buy it, read it."—
Academy of Management Review"Those who are looking for new approaches and resarch directions will find
The Entrepreneurship Dynamic a rich and variegated source of ideas."—Philip Anderson,
INSEADTable of ContentsPreface 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.
