Entrepreneurship The Social Science View [Paperback]

This new addition to the Oxford Management Readers series looks at the culture and role of the entrepreneur from an interdisciplinary perspective. Introduced by an internationally known editor, this volume contains the best that has been written on entrepreneurship by economists, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists.

Introduction,Richard Swedberg
Part I: Different Social Science Perspectives on Entrepreneurship
1. Entrepreneurship as Innovation,Joseph A. Schumpeter
2. Entrepreneurship Before and After Schumpeter,Mark Blaug
3. The Entrepreneur and Profit,Ludwig von Mises
4. Values and Entrepreneurship in the Americas,S. M. Lipset
5. The Modernization of Entrepreneurship,Alexander Gerschenkron
6. Economic Spheres in Darfur,Fredric Barth
Part II: Entrepreneurship and the Firm. Small Firms, Large Firms, and How a Manager can also be an Entrepreneur
7. When a Thousand Flowers Bloom,Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Richard Swedbergis Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University where he has been since 1986. 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 ofAdministrative Science Quarterlyand an advisory member of the journalsCurrent SociologyandGeschichte und Gegenwart: Vierteljahreshefte furZeitgeschichte, Gesellschaftsanalyse und politische Bildung.