1st Edition
Contemporary Entrepreneurship Global Perspectives and Cases
This book dives deep into everyday entrepreneurial stories with an engaging narrative, based on theory, while providing practical implications by highlighting diverse entrepreneurial examples in emerging themes. It provides a collection of concise authentic entrepreneurship case studies, organized into three main themes: digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning innovations, and challenging entrepreneurship. The featured case studies are based mainly on primary data gathered from entrepreneurs and active members within the entrepreneurship ecosystem all over the globe, at different stages of the entrepreneurial process. Thus, it moves away from the typical unicorns and flagship start-up stories, which are abundant in management literature, to dive deep into realistic everyday entrepreneurial narratives. This edited collection will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of entrepreneurship and small business management, international business, and management education.
1. Introduction - The diversity, practicality, and contemporariness predicaments of entrepreneurship research
Basel Hammoda and Susanne Durst
2. From Books to Blogs: The digitalization journey of a contentpreneur
Hend Mostafa, Marina Apaydin, Shaun Gold and Basel Hammoda
3. Business Model Innovation in Fintech: A Chilean WealthTech Industry Perspective
Felipe Rifo Rivera, Julián Andrés Díaz Tautiva, Sebastián Andrés Barros Celume, Sergio Rifo Rivera and Erica Salvaj Carrera
4. A Born-Global entrepreneur in the PayTech industry: Finding opportunities and capturing value in international markets
Julián Andrés Díaz Tautiva, Sergio Rifo Rivera, Sebastián Andrés Barros Celume, Felipe Rifo Rivera and Antonio Lecuna
5. Digital skills platform from Silicon Valley: Training new generations using experiential learning principles
M. Winter and Basel Hammoda
6. Design Thinking: A Teaching and Learning Pedagogy for Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Fady Michel, Rhea Singhla, Moritz Gripp and Amina El Shazly
7. Students Creating Value for Microenterprises in Live Casework: Cases from the Scandinavian Growth Creators Project
Michael Breum Ramsgaard and Mette Lindahl Thomassen
8. What we don’t talk about in entrepreneurship: moving the spotlight from the “hero entrepreneur” to the “unremarkable”’ everyday lives of student entrepreneurs
Birgitte Wraae and Nicolai Nybye
9. Doing Well by Doing Good: Identity Conflict In An Indigenous Entrepreneur
Sebastian Andrés Barros Celume, Felipe Ignacio Rifo Rivera, Julian Andrés Díaz Tautiva,
Sergio Andres Rifo Rivera and Antonio Lecuna
10. Entrepreneurial resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Echoes of a British catering and hospitality startup
Basel Hammoda and Meriam Razgallah
11. A Healthtech startup internationalization dilemma: Challenges expanding into the established U.S. market
Basel Hammoda and Pablo Pereira Balestra
12. Circular Economy business model challenges in entrepreneurial realties: Navigating the value chain of a recycling startup
Radha Vyas and Basel Hammoda
13. Conclusion – Contemporary entrepreneurship: Global perspectives and cases
Basel Hammoda and Susanne Durst
Biography
Basel Hammoda is a PhD candidate and lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Department of Business Administration at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. He is a startup mentor and advisor with more than 10 years of experience, working with different ecosystem programs across the world. He focuses his research on innovative approaches to entrepreneurial learning and its intersections with other entrepreneurship subdomains.
Susanne Durst is a full professor of management at Reykjavik University, Iceland, an adjunct professor in the Department of Business Administration at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and a full professor of business administration at the University of Skövde, Sweden. She also serves on the editorial board of several academic journals.
“A great way to learn about entrepreneurship is to take a deep dive into the real-life stories of the entrepreneurs through the struggles and triumphs of their daily journeys as they build their businesses. This book provides a wealth of case studies from around the world, providing inspiration and insights.”
Ayman Ismail, Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship, associate professor at The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business and the founding director of the AUC Venture Lab
“Cases in Contemporary Entrepreneurship is a much-needed and timely contribution to the field of entrepreneurship that bridges theory and practice through insightful stories and examples of entrepreneurs and contexts in which entrepreneurship happens.”
Christoph Winkler, Iona University
“Entrepreneurship and the real-life stories and case studies in this book share a common thread of resilience as evidenced by the entrepreneurs themselves. The network of stories explores entrepreneurial innovations at various intersections and offer a more practice-oriented approach to entrepreneurship theory and research.”
Oscar Edwards, CEO, Higher Growth Strategies, LLC; Diversity Equity Inclusion Group, LLC, USA
