Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Context

Edited by Friederike Welter, President and Managing Director, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn and Professor, University of Siegen, Germany and William B. Gartner, Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship, Babson College, US and Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at Linnaeus University, Sweden

• Contents:1. The context of contextualizing contexts Friederike Welter, William B. Gartner and Mike Wright2. Understanding entrepreneurial cognitions through the lenses of context Malin Brännback and Alan L. Carsrud3. ‘After’ context Chris Steyaert4. Let them eat bricolage? Towards a contextualized notion of inequality of entrepreneurial opportunity Ted Baker and E. Erin Powell5. The temporal dimension of context Stephen Lippmann and Howard E. Aldrich6. Entrepreneurship in historical context: using history to develop theory and understand process R. Daniel Wadhwani7. A relational conceptualization of context and the real-time emergence of entrepreneurship processes Denise Fletcher and Paul Selden8. Theorizing entrepreneurship in context Erik Stam9. Methodological approaches towards context-sensitive entrepreneurship research Simone Chlosta10. Advancing understanding of entrepreneurial embeddedness: forms of capital, social contexts and time Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd, Tobias Pret and Eleanor Shaw11. Historical methods for contextualizing entrepreneurship research R. Daniel Wadhwani12. Narrating context William B. Gartner13. Advancing our research agenda for entrepreneurship and contextsFriederike Welter and William B. Gartner14. A reading list on entrepreneurship and contexts Index

’In summary, this edited book should be on the reading list of all those interested in learning more about entrepreneurship and context. Its reflection on the history of the discussion of entrepreneurship and context, the exploration of various time aspects and reflections on cognition and post-context lead to the outline of a research agenda shaping this research field for years to come.’