Entrepreneurship
The Social Science View
Edited by Richard Swedberg
Table of Contents
Introduction, Richard Swedberg
A Guide to the Social Science Literature for Entrepreneurs-To-Be
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
Part III: Entrepreneurship and the Firm
8:When a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Structural, Collective, and Social Conditions for Innovation in Organization, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
9:Entrepreneurial Strategies in New Organizational Populations, Howard Aldrich
10:Innovation in Large and Small Firms, Kenneth Arrow
11:The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs, Mark Granovetter
Part IV: Entrepreneurship in a Changing World
12:The Network Entrepreneur, Ronald Burt
13:The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley, AnnaLee Saxenian
14:Entrepreneurship and Culture: The Case of Freddy, the Strawberry Man, Monica Lindh de Montoya
15:Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Roger Waldinger, Howard Aldrich, and Robin Ward
