1st Edition
Embedded Entrepreneurship The Institutional Dynamics of Innovation
By Alexander Ebner
Copyright 2015
288 Pages
by
Routledge
In this book, Alexander Ebner reconstructs the theory of entrepreneurship from an institutionalist perspective. It provides a fresh account of current theorising on entrepreneurship, specifically addressing Schumpeterian thought as well as Neo-Austrian, Neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary approaches. A synthesis of these institutionalist arguments allows for outlining a new approach to the theory... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Entrepreneurship in Economic Thought: An Intellectual History 3. The Schumpeterian Perspective: Novelty, Leadership, and Historicity 4. Neo-Austrian Contributions: Knowledge, Alertness and Discovery 5. The Evolutionary Challenge: Routines, Cognition and Variety 6. Beyond Growth and Development: Microfoundations of Economic Change 7. Neo-Schumpeterian Variations: Collective Entrepreneurship and Systems of Innovation 8. Innovation, Coordination, and the Paradigmatic Character of Entrepreneurship: A New Approach 9. Embedded Entrepreneurship: Policy Implications 10. Conclusion
Biography
Alexander Ebner is Assistant Professor with the Chair of Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at the Faculty of Economics, Law and the Social Sciences at the University of Erfurt, Germany.
