Frontiers in Entrepreneurship
Te series Perspectives in Entrepreneurship: A Research Companion provides an authoritative overview of specialised themes in entrepreneurship. Each of the four books presents the conceptual framework and foundations underlying a specialist feld of scholar
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Boris Urban Editor
Frontiers in Entrepreneurship
Editor Professor Boris Urban University of the Witwatersrand Wits Business School 2 St. David’s Place, Parktown Johannesburg 2193 South Africa [email protected]
The edition is for countries outside Africa. Please order the book from Springer-Verlag www.springer.com A parallel edition is published by Heinemann Publishers(Pty) Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa for sale on the African continent.
ISBN 978-3-642-04501-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-04502-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-04502-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010925354 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Contents
Acknowledgements Biographies of authors Preface Introduction
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Chapter 1 Early thinking and the emergence of entrepreneurship 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Ancient era 1.3 Medieval era 1.4 Pre-industrial revolution 1.5 Classical economic bases 1.6 Neo-classical economic theory 1.7 Austrian Market Process (AMP) 1.8 Multidisciplinary entrepreneurship contributions 1.9 Environment vs. the individual 1.10 Entrepreneurship as a distinctive domain 1.11 Contemporary entrepreneurial research 1.12 Conclusion References and further readings Chapter 2 Entrepreneurship as a discipline and field of study 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Entrepreneurship as an emerging enquiry 2.3 Criteria and rationale for entrepreneurship studies 2.4 Obstacles constraining the development of entrepreneurship 2.5 The study of entreprenology 2.6 Entrepreneurship embodied in different paradigms 2.7 Entrepreneurship as an established discipline 2.8 Participation in entrepreneurship studies 2.9 Offerings and pedagogy in entrepreneurship 2.10 Entrepreneurship vs. generic management 2.11 Entrepreneurship as a field of study in an African context 2.12 Conclusion References and further readings
1 1 2 4 5 6 9 12 15 17 18 24 27 28 33 33 34 35 37 39 41 43 44 49 54 56 59 60
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Chapter 3 Economic perspectives of entrepreneurship 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Theories of entrepreneurship and economics 3.3 Entrepreneurship in economi
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