Perspectives in Entrepreneurship

KEVIN MOLE Associate Professor in Enterprise at Warwick Business School, UK, having previously been Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (CSME). He has published in a number of journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, British Journal of Management, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, and the International Small Business Journal.MONDER RAM Professor of Small Business at De Montfort University, UK, and Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME). He has extensive experience of working in, researching, and acting as a consultant to ethnic minority businesses and has published widely on the subject. Monder is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a director of the Institute of Small Business Affairs. Monder is also a member of the Department of Trade and Industry's Ethnic Minority Business Forum and Small Business Council.

• PART ONE: MICRO PERSPECTIVESThe Rational Choice Approach to Entrepreneurship; K. Mole & S. RoperThe Pyschology of the Entrepreneursh; L. Kolvereid & E. IsaksenUndertaking Interpretive Work in Entrepreneurship Research;D. FletcherPART TWO: MACRO PERSPECTIVESFeminism, Gender and Entrepreneurship; S. MarlowAn Introduction to Network Approaches and Embeddedness; S. Drakopoulos DoddEntrepreneurship and Neo-Institutional Theory; P. TraceyEvolution and Entrepreneurship; D. BreslinEntrepreneurship in the Context of the ResourceBased View of the Firm; N. FossPART THREE: INTEGRATING MICRO AND MACRO PERSPECTIVESCritical Realism and Entrepreneurship; K. MoleCritical Theories of Entrepreneurship; A SpicerPragmatism, Reality and Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Action and Effectuation Perspectives; T. Watson.

'Kevin Mole and Monder Ramconclude this wide-ranging volume by observing that this is a very positive time to study entrepreneurship. On the basis of the diverse approaches thoughtfully covered in this volume, this is a sentiment which will be echoed by future generations of student readers.' - David Storey, Professor of Enterprise, University of Sussex 'This book brings together a welcome but seldom offered exposure to, and critique of, different approaches to the study of entrepreneurship. It elucidates these approaches, and their merits and demerits, very effectively through well chosen studies across chapters. It is a valuable addition to the literature on entrepreneurship and should be read by any serious student in this field.' - Ken O'Neill, Professor Emeritus of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development, University of Ulster 'Conventional business education too often provides a single theoretical approach for examining complex business issues. As a result, students and even some faculty forget that theoretical models are man-made tools, not literal representations of reality. This book's collection of many different perspectives on entrepreneurship is a rare resource for helping students and other readers develop the capacity to frame this important business phenomenon from multiple points of view.' - Anne Colby, Consulting Professor, Stanford University; co-author of Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education