The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Modern Entrepreneurship

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1 Makers of modern entrepreneurship
2 The godfather of entrepreneurship
	Introduction
	The New School
	WZB and Small Business Economics
	The geography of innovation
	The Max Planck Institute of Economics
	George Mason University
	The London School of Economics
3 Fifty years in the making: my career as a scholar of organizations and entrepreneurship
	Introduction
	Academic beginnings
	Finding a community of scholars at Cornell
	Early work on business succession in cities in the United States and England
	Stanford University
	Developing an appreciation of evolutionary thinking
	The resource dependence perspective
	Becoming an entrepreneurship scholar
	Organizations evolving
	Graduate students’ contributions
	Current research on the maker movement
	Looking forward: advice to young scholars
	Closing thoughts
4 Roots and wings
	The setting
	Discovering small business
	Taking innovation seriously
	The Schumpeterian paradox
	Resolving the Schumpeterian paradox: entrepreneurship
	The missing W of economics
	Scaling up
	The entrepreneurial society
	Final thoughts
5 The effects of business ownership on people’s lives
	Getting into entrepreneurship research
	Getting on in entrepreneurship research
	Entrepreneurship and agricultural restructuring
	The lived experiences of the small business owner
	Women entrepreneurs: still not accessing finance
	Economic well-being in the entrepreneurial household
	Looking backward and forward: advice to young scholars
6 Back to the roots
	Academic provenance
	Building a research career
	The halcyon days
	Breaking the apron strings
	The middle years
	My future research
	Suggestions for young researchers
7 A research journey into entrepreneurial finance
	Introduction
	Toward research in entrepreneurial finance
	How research on IPOs evolved
	How research on crowdfunding might evolve
8 What an opportunity!
	Background
	Dissertation: small firm growth
	SMEs, job creation, and regional development
	Nascent entrepreneurship
	Further studies of small firm growth
	Conceptualization of entrepreneurship and “entrepreneurial opportunities”
9 Finding myself staring at the future
	Introduction
	Hooked on opportunity
	The glasses of experience
	From insight to intention
	Beyond single person, single insight
	Opportunity confidence and two types of success
	Grappling with the unbearable elusiveness
	No time for time
	Where next?
10 Judgement, the theory of the firm, and the economics of institutions: my contributions to the entrepreneurship field
	Introduction: the reluctant entrepreneurship scholar
	Personal background
	Early work
	Entrepreneurship, governance, and organizational design
	Entrepreneurship and the classical Coasian questions
	Entrepreneurship and organizational design in the established firm
	Entrepreneurship, institutions, and economic growth
	Coda
11 Entrepreneurship and growth: a personal story
	Introduction
	Finding the topic
	The effect of new businesses on regional development
	Regional entrepreneurship culture
	Conclusions and further questions
12 Anecdotes of destiny
	Introduction
	Family and background
	Ideas and their origins
	Entrepreneurship as variation
	Entrepreneurship as organizing
	Scholarship as community
	Impact
13 An Austrian perspective on firms and markets: my contributions to entrepreneurship theory
	Introduction
	Austrian economics, entrepreneurship, and the theory of the firm
	The judgment-based view
	Reflections on Kirzner
	Moving forward
14 Corporate entrepreneurship: a research journey
	The beginning in entrepreneurship
	The evolution into corporate entrepreneurship
	Developing the CEAI
	Insights into managerial levels
	Defining the domains of CE
	Examining control and failure
	Framing a corporate entrepreneurial strategy
	The journey continues
15 From integrating functions to integrating ideas
	What was in that residual?
	Public–private research partnerships
	The Journal of Technology Transfer
	Public-sector entrepreneurship
16 Location matters
	Introduction
	Stanford University
	Industrial clusters
	Home sweet home
	University of Toronto
	Syndication networks
	Venture capital and economic growth
	Business schools
	Entrepreneurship and inequality
17 Visions of the past: wish you had been there
	Some introduction
	Some more introduction
	In the beginning there was productivity and pricing
	Embedment, encounters and economics
	Discovering small business economics
	The E of SBE
	Policy and the business cycle
	Finally, some entrepreneurship research
	Hello, biology
	Looking back and ahead
18 A place for entrepreneurship
	Introduction: early career
	Regional transformation through innovation and entrepreneurship
	Lessons learned from a dynamic innovation economy
	The power of connected entrepreneurial teams
	Conclusion: research needs to better document cultural factors and social dynamics
19 Wandering between contexts
	Introduction: it’s all about context!
	How it all started
	The distinctiveness of entrepreneurship in a transition context
	Context matters
	Contextualizing entrepreneurship research
	And now? Contextualising entrepreneurship theory and policy
	Moving on: who are the makers of future entrepreneurship?
20 Re-search = me-search
	Introduction: why and how it all started
	Dissertation research on the growth of firms
	Entrepreneurial orientation
	Stockholm
	Wining and dining
	Working with PhD students
	Entrepreneurship and mental health: still crazy after all these years
	In closing
21 The conquest of interestingness: entrepreneurial ownership mobility
	Introduction
	My back pages
	Maggie’s farm
	Fourth time around
	The world of research has gone berserk
	No direction home
	Still on the road, heading for another joint
22 Researching entrepreneurship at the intersection: reflections on three decades of research
	Introduction
	Learning about entrepreneurship
	Research at the intersection
	Focus on corporate entrepreneurship
	Diversity, variety and context
	International and internationalization
	Expanding boundaries
	Entrepreneurship as knowledge
	The invisible college and idea factory
	Lessons and moving forward
	Conclusion
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