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Book SynopsisExamines the theoretical presuppositions of the entrepreneurship research within organizational sociology. This volume includes topics such as: entry into entrepreneurship, immigrant entrepreneurship and enclaves, academic entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurialism related to organizational forms.
Table of ContentsIntroduction to Volume 1. The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Martin Ruef (Princeton University) and Michael Lounsbury (University of Alberta) I. Entry into Entrepreneurial Activity 2. A Life Course Perspective on Occupational Inheritance: Self-employed Parents and Their Children Howard E. Aldrich (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Phillip H. Kim (University of Wisconsin) 3. Closure and Exposure: Mechanisms in the Intergenerational Transmission of Self-employment Jesper B. Sorensen (Stanford Graduate School of Business) 4. Boundary Formation in Emergent Organizations Hongwei Xu (National University of Singapore) and Martin Ruef (Princeton University) II. Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Enclaves 5. Revisiting the Enclave Hypothesis: Miami Twenty-Five Years Later Alejandro Portes (Princeton University) and Steven Shafer (Princeton University) 6. The Force of Regulation in the Land of the Free: The Persistence of Chinatown, Washington D.C.as a Symbolic Ethnic Enclave Ching Lin Pang (Catholic University of Leuven) and Jan Rath (University of Amsterdam) III. Academic Entrepreneurship 7. From Vulnerable to Venerated: The Institutionalization of Academic Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences Jeannette A. Colyvas (Stanford University) and Walter W. Powell (Stanford University) 8. Start-ups in Science: Entrepreneurs, Diverse Backing, and Novelty Outside Business James A. Evans (University of Chicago) IV. Entrepreneurship and Organizational Forms 9. Turning Identity into Form: The Cause and Consequence for Kaiser Permanente of Becoming an HMO Carol A. Caronna (Towson University) 10. Entrepreneurship at the Margins of Society: Founding Dynamics in Gray (Sex Shops) and Black Markets (Mafia) Luca Solari (Universita Degli Studi di Milano)
