Entrepreneurialism and Society

Robert N. Eberhart is the Associate Director of Research of the entrepreneurship and society project at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is also a visiting professor at Kobe University, and at Oxford’s Space Science Initiative.Michael Lounsbury is a Professor at the Alberta School of Business and adjunct in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also the Director of the eHUB entrepreneurship centre. Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Business at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He is a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, and an Affiliate in the Strategy Department at Duke University.

• Introduction – "Reversing Entrepreneurship’s Arrow”: The Metaphor’s Model and Research Implications; P. Deveraux Jennings, Timothy R. Hannigan, and Jennifer E. JenningsChapter 1. Towards an Untrepreneurial Economy? The Entrepreneurship Industry and the Rise of the Veblenian Entrepreneur; Rasmus Koss Hartmann, Andre Spicer, and Anders Dahl KrabbeChapter 2. Revisiting the Relationship Between Income Equality and Entrepreneurship: A Social Trust Perspective; Ryan Coles, Shon R. Hiatt, and Wesley D. SineChapter 3. Rethinking Social Capital: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as Contested Communities; Banu Ozkazanc-PanChapter 4. Social Entrepreneurship and the Common Good; Helen M. Haugh and Bob DohertyChapter 5. How Do Founding Teams Form? Towards a Behavioral Theory of Founding Team Formation; David R. Clough and Balagopal VissaChapter 6. Enacting (New) Possibilities of Living: Entrepreneurship and Affirmation; Dillon Berjani, Karen Verduijn, and Elco van BurgChapter 7. Entrepreneurship Education in Post-Soviet Higher Education Systems: Moving into or Resisting Global Entrepreneurial Culture; Pavel Sorokin, Isak Froumin, and Svetlana Chernenko

The two volumes are a tour de force that serve to crystallize a novel way of conceptualizing the interplay between society and entrepreneurship. They have led to a sea change in scholarship on entrepreneurship and will inspire new and exciting research for years to come.