188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing appreciation for the importance of contexts. This promises to improve both the practical relevance and the theoretical rigor of research in this field. Entrepreneurship means... Read more
Preface: Our journey towards contextualizing entrepreneurship theory
Part I: Understanding contexts and entrepreneurship
- Why contexts play an ever-increasing role for entrepreneurship research
- Synthesizing the context debate in entrepreneurship research
- Constructing contexts: enacting, talking, seeing
- Problematizing, making choices and asking who our research serves
- Some heuristics for researchers embracing a Critical Process Approach
- Narrating and visualizing contexts
- Why it’s hard to look back once you have embraced contexts
Part II: Theorizing contexts
Part III: Studying contexts
Part IV: Going forward
Author Biographies
Index
Biography
Ted Baker is George F. Farris Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.
Friederike Welter is President and Managing Director of the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn, and holds a professorship at University of Siegen, Germany.
