Rethinking Entrepreneurship: Debating Research Orientations [Hardcover]

1. Introduction  2. Dimly Through the Fog: Institutional forces affecting the multidisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship  3. Moving On: Affirming the entrepreneurial in entrepreneurship research  4. The Economic Reification of Entrepreneurship, Re-engaging with the Social  5. Social Entrepreneurship: To defend society from itself  6. Is International Entrepreneurship Research a Viable Spin-off from its Parent Disciplines?  7. Navigating the Growing Field of Entrepreneurship Inquiry: Successonist and relational modes of theory development  8. Institutionalization of the Field and its Impact on Both the Ethics and the Quality of Entrepreneurship Research in the Coming Decades  9. Legitimacy or Relevance: That is the question  10. What Makes Scholars Interesting in Entrepreneurship Research: Learning from the past  11. Entrepreneurship Research Without Passion: Lets fall in love again  12. Conclusion: Final thoughts and perspectives

Entrepreneurship is a growing field of research, attracting researchers from many different disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology, and management. The concept of entrepreneurship, and research in the field, is becoming institutionalized, increasingly oriented by influential trends, theories and methods, following the mainstream and being shaped accordingly.

The objective of this book is to move beyond mainstream approaches and assumptions which are dominating the field, and to raise questions about the nature and process of entrepreneurship research. Over twelve chapters, leading international thinkers in the field debate the impact and the consequences of institutionalization. Taking key research orientations including multidisciplinarity, international entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and ethics, it takes a critical and constlS$